Pellucid

Adjective

 * 1) allowing for the passage of light; transparent
 * 2) easily understood; clear

Synonyms

 * clear, crystal clear
 * limpid, lucid

Related terms

 * elucidate
 * lucid

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.

Adverbs for Pellucid
beautifully; admirably; unusually; wonderfully; marvellously; delightfully; incomparably; unsurpassably; limpidly; surprisingly; pricelessly; extraordinarily; inimitably; exquisitely; incomparably; peculiarly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From pellucidus:, from per: + lucidus: (from whence lucid:) < luceo:. Compare clear:, crystal clear:, both also with literal meaning “transparent” but metaphorical meaning “easily understood”.

Translations

 * Spanish:, ,


 * Spanish: diáfano