pellucid
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figuratively)Examples: "Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir."; "[Y]ou never receive me apart from the grammar that establishes my availability to you. If I treat that grammar as pellucid, then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here."Synonyms: crystal clear, lucid, perspicuous, translucent, apprehensible, clear, comprehensible, explainableAntonyms: comprehensiblefigurativelyliterary
2. (figuratively)Examples: "Opera star [Giorgio] Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and [Sharon] Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano."figurativelyliterary
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4. (figuratively)Synonyms: apparent, arrant, undoubted, glaring, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bellAntonyms: manifest, obvious, simplearchaicfigurativelyliterary
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, rare) Something which allows the passage of light; a translucent or transparent object.Examples: "A Pellucid is not ſeen, but percieved^([sic]) by the privation of Colour. So vve ſee not Air in Air, VVater in VVater, Glaſs in Glaſs, and every Pellucid in an equal Pellucid; and becauſe vve knovv they are not coloured, vve count them to be diaphanous, viz. that may be ſeen, or ſhone thorough."; "The true Aſtroites, vvhich in the ſun-ſhine throvvs out a briſk light radiating from one certain point, belongs to the claſs of Pellucids."literaryobsoleterare
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