transpicuous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- transpicuously adverb
Etymology
Origin of transpicuous
1630–40; < New Latin trānspicuus, equivalent to trāns- trans- + ( per ) spicuus transparent; see perspicuous
Example Sentences
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In this voluminous series of papers the critical pen, when most earnestly eulogistic or most sharply incisive, is wielded with so much skill and art and fine temper, that personality is seldom transpicuous.
From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)
If slumber solved the bars Of sense, or sense transpicuous grown Fulfill-ed seeing unto sight, I know not; nor if 'twas my own Ingathered self that made her night.
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
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