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PERSPICUOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perspicuously mean?
• PERSPICUOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb PERSPICUOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a clear and lucid manner
Familiarity information: PERSPICUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a clear and lucid manner
Synonyms:
limpidly; lucidly; pellucidly; perspicuously
Context example:
this is a lucidly written book
Pertainym:
perspicuous ((of language) transparently clear; easily understandable)
Context examples
I must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeply interested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I had done, that they were a sort of vegetable.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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