pellucid
Plural: pellucids
Adjective Satellite
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- "a pellucid brook"
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; ; ; - Robert Burton
- "pellucid prose"
Adj
- Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
- Easily understood; clear.
- Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
- Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
- Easily recognized or seen through; apparent, obvious.
Noun
- Something which allows the passage of light; a translucent or transparent object.
Adjective
- Translucently clear; easily understood.
Examples
- His strategy was PELLUCID: use high-value letters on bonus squares.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin pellūcidus, perlucidus (“transparent, pellucid; very bright; very understandable”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘through; throughout; completely, thoroughly’) + lūcidus (“clear; full of light, bright, shining; (figuratively) easily understood, clear, lucid”) (from lūceō (“to shine; to become visible, show through; (figuratively) to be apparent, conspicuous, or evident”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Late Latin pellucidum (“transparent substance”)
* Middle French pellucide (modern French pellucide (“pellucid”))
Synonyms
crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous, transparent, apparent, apprehensible, arrant, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bell, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear cut, comprehensible, cut and dried, decided, diaphanous, elucidate, evident, explainable, explicable, explicatable, eyely, fathomable, glaring, glassy, graspable, hyaline, hyaloid, illuminable, intelligible, intuitive, manifest, notable, noticeable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, palpable, patent, pellucid, plain, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as Salisbury, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as the nose on one's face, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, see-through, serene, straightforward, tangible, translucent, transpicuous, understandable, undissembled, undoubted, vitreous
Antonyms
comprehensible, manifest, obvious, simple, translucent, transparent, turbid
Scrabble Score: 13
pellucid: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpellucid: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pellucid: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary