Lucid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lucid is an adjective meaning Clear; easily understood.
Meaning
Clear; easily understood.
More Meanings
- Mentally rational; sane.
- Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
- A lucid dream.
Example Sentences
The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]
Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]
[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.
Word Forms
- lucider
- lucidest
- lucids
Synonyms for lucid
Depending on context, synonyms include clear, perspicuous, straightforward, coherent, sane, brilliant.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perspicuous, limpid, transparent, pellucid, clear, rational.
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