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limpid

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adjective
  1. clear, transparent, or pellucid, as water, crystal, or air: We could see to the very bottom of the limpid pond.
  2. free from obscurity; lucid; clear: a limpid style; limpid prose.
  3. completely calm; without distress or worry: a limpid, emotionless existence.
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Origin of limpid

First recorded in 1605–15, limpid is from the Latin word limpidus clear. See lymph, -id4
Related formslim·pid·i·ty, lim·pid·ness, nounlim·pid·ly, adverb
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  • I believed in visions––in the deep, limpid, mysterious springs of conduct.

  • From it came the sound of a voice, limpid, clear, which Lennox knew and knew too was not Margaret's.

    The Paliser case

    Edgar Saltus

  • Birds called excitedly and flew exultantly about in the limpid air.

    Miss Pat at School

    Pemberton Ginther

  • Her eyes were soft and limpid, and they held an expression of dreaminess in their depths.

    Phyllis

    Dorothy Whitehill

  • He is lacking in the limpid clarity of sheer light-heartedness.

    Maxim Gorki

    Hans Ostwald

British Dictionary definitions for limpid

limpid

adjective
  1. clear or transparent
  2. (esp of writings, style, etc) free from obscurity
  3. calm; peaceful
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Derived Formslimpidity or limpidness, nounlimpidly, adverb

Word Origin

C17: from French limpide, from Latin limpidus clear
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Word Origin and History for limpid

adj.

c.1600, from French limpide (15c.) and directly from Latin limpidus "clear," from limpa "water goddess, water;" probably cognate with lympha "clear liquid" (see lymph). Related: Limpidly.

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