pellucid

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pel=lu=cid

CIDE DICTIONARY

pellucid, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see Per-) + lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.].

 Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pellucid, adj.
1 (of water, light, etc.) transparent, clear.
2 (of style, speech, etc.) not confused; clear.
3 mentally clear.

Derivative

pellucidity n. pellucidly adv.

Etymology

L pellucidus f. perlucere (as PER-, lucere shine)

THESAURUS

pellucid

Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, refined, relucent, restrained, revealing, round, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, serene, sheer, simple, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined

ROGET THESAURUS

pellucid

Transparency

N transparence, transparency, clarity, translucence, translucency, diaphaneity, lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity, fluorescence, transillumination, translumination, transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water, transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent, limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreform.