translucid
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of translucid
First recorded in 1620–30, translucid is from the Latin word trānslūcidus clear, transparent. See trans-, lucid
Example Sentences
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Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023
What I felt after Florence was the translucid calm of the ocean's depth.
From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)
As far as the eye could reach, in the pure translucid atmosphere, the bright colored kerchiefs of the girls appeared above the wheat-fields like so many poppy flowers.
From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The translucid Towey here wantons in perpetual variety among gay meadows and embowering plantations, where the eye with pleasure traces its fantastic meanders until they disappear behind projecting groves.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.
Its edges, a little translucid, give it some resemblance to the hornstone, so common in secondary limestones.*
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
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