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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Easily understood; clear or lucid.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Bright; luminous; transparent.
  2. Clear; evident; unmistakable.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Shining, brilliant.
  2. adj. obsolete Of language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Lucid; clear; transparent.
  2. adj. Clear; evident; luminous.
  3. adj. obsolete Bright; shining in beauty.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

Etymologies

  1. From Latin lūculentus, from lūx ("light"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, shiny, from Latin lūculentus, from lūx, lūc-, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Gibbon for once arises from defect of information; and when in a note he observes that Mosheim "unfolds the causes with the judgment of a philosopher," while Fleury "transcribes and translates with the prejudices of a Catholic priest," himself gives a luculent example of the errors of philosophy, and of the often unsuspected approach of prejudice to truth.”

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II

  • “Theodoric is one of the most luculent testimonies for that blending of fact and fancy in strictly historical times which people find it so difficult to believe, but which offers the key, and the only true key, for many of the most perplexing problems, both of history and of mythology.”

    Roman and the Teuton

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Words with the same meaning

  1. lucid
  1. clear
  1. transparent
  1. evident
  1. luminous
  1. bright

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘luculent’

  1. clear

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. luculently

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  • palooka Easily understood; clear or lucid. AHD Mar 20, 2007

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