Pellucid

Quick meaning: Pellucid is an adjective meaning Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.

Meaning

Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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: […]

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.

Word Forms

• pellucids

Synonyms for pellucid

Depending on context, synonyms include clear, limpid, lucid, perspicuous, crystalline, diaphanous.

Antonyms for pellucid

Common opposites include adiaphanous, nontransparent, opacous, opacular, opaque, thick.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clear, transparent, limpid, luculent, lucid, perspicuous.

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