Dictionary Definition
pellucid adj
1 transmitting light; able to be seen through
with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid
pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" [syn:
crystalline,
crystal
clear, limpid,
lucid, transparent]
2 (of language) transparently clear; easily
understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a
luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal
clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, crystal
clear, perspicuous]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəˈluːsɪd/
Adjective
- allowing for the passage of light; transparent
- easily understood; clear
Quotations
- 1999 - Judith
Butler, 1999 Preface for Gender
Trouble
- 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, Antonyms and Related Words
Attic,
Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as
day, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, refined, relucent, restrained, revealing, round, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent,
serene, sheer, simple, straightforward,
tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured,
well-defined