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PERSPICUOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perspicuous mean?
• PERSPICUOUS (adjective)
The adjective PERSPICUOUS has 1 sense:
1. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
Familiarity information: PERSPICUOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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:
perspicuity; perspicuousness (clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous)
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