Pellucid

/pɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent..

Definitions by Sense

1. Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
2. Easily understood; clear.
3. Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
4. Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
5. Easily recognized or seen through; apparent, obvious.
6. (obsolete, rare) Something which allows the passage of light; a translucent or transparent object.

Example Sentences

Blood to the naked Eye appears all red; but by a good Microſcope, vvherein its leſſer parts appear, ſhevvs only ſome fevv Globules of Red, ſvvimming in a pellucid Liquor; and hovv theſe Globules vvould appear, if Glaſſes could be found, that yet could magnifie them 1000, or 10000 times more, is uncertain.

This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as VVater or Cryſtal of the Rock, and vvithout Colour; enduring a red Heat vvithout loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining vvithout Fuſion.

As a stream, clear and bright, becomes foul with weeds, and stagnates by its distant meanderings from its pure and pellucid source,—so the active imagination, the capacious intellect of Douglas, those high and valuable endowments, had, by an undue use of them, been perverted.

The sea was shining like a sheet of glass, […] and the bright sea-weeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.

You cannot think what figs / My teeth have met in, / What melons icy-cold / Piled on a dish of gold / Too huge for me to hold, / What peaches with a velvet nap, / Pellucid grapes without one seed: […]

The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.

Most of the pool was quite shallow, but under the cliff where the beach was hollowed out it was four or five feet deep. It was to this part that a swimmer would naturally go, for it formed a beautiful pellucid green pool as clear as crystal.

Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.

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• more pellucid
• most pellucid
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