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PELLUCID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pellucid mean?
• PELLUCID (adjective)
The adjective PELLUCID has 2 senses:
1. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
2. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
Familiarity information: PELLUCID used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
Synonyms:
crystal clear; crystalline; limpid; lucid; pellucid; transparent
Context example:
transparent crystal
Similar:
clear (allowing light to pass through)
Derivation:
pellucidity; pellucidness (passing light without diffusion or distortion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
Synonyms:
crystal clear; limpid; lucid; luculent; pellucid; perspicuous
Context example:
a perspicuous argument
Similar:
clear (readily apparent to the mind)
Domain category:
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
Derivation:
pellucidity (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)
Context examples
The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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