pellucid

[ puh-loo-sid ]
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adjective
  1. allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent

  2. clear; limpid: pellucid waters.

  1. clear in meaning, expression, or style: a pellucid way of writing.

Origin of pellucid

1
First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin pellūcidus, variant of perlūcidus “transparent, radiant”; see origin at per-, lucid

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Other words from pellucid

  • pel·lu·cid·i·ty [pel-oo-sid-i-tee], /ˌpɛl ʊˈsɪd ɪ ti/, pel·lu·cid·ness, noun
  • pel·lu·cid·ly, adverb
  • sub·pel·lu·cid, adjective
  • sub·pel·lu·cid·ly, adverb
  • sub·pel·lu·cid·ness, noun
  • sub·pel·lu·cid·i·ty, noun

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How to use pellucid in a sentence

  • The fresh green blade of corn is like this—so pellucid, so clear and pure in its green as to seem to shine with colour.

    The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
  • Greatest miracle of all, a tiny stream of pellucid water was flowing down the Gulch.

  • Like some of our own pellucid waters, it is a Naiad of the purest kind, sleeping on coral and crystal couches.

  • She was enveloped in a cloud, a thick case guarding overtaxed mind and body, and shutting them in its pellucid chrysalis.

    Lazarre | Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • These wells were filled with water, and with a blue light, celestial in its loveliness,—a light ethereal and pellucid.

    Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | Charles Warren Stoddard

British Dictionary definitions for pellucid

pellucid

/ (pɛˈluːsɪd) /


adjective
  1. transparent or translucent

  2. extremely clear in style and meaning; limpid

Origin of pellucid

1
C17: from Latin pellūcidus, variant of perlūcidus, from perlūcēre to shine through, from per through + lūcēre to shine

Derived forms of pellucid

  • pellucidly, adverb
  • pellucidity or pellucidness, noun

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