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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Admitting the passage of light; transparent or translucent. See Synonyms at clear.
  2. adj. Transparently clear in style or meaning: pellucid prose.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Transparent.
  2. Admitting the passage of light, but not properly transparent; translucent; limpid; not opaque; in entomology, transparet, but not necessarily colorless; translucent.
  3. Figuratively, clear; transparent to mental vision.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. allowing for the passage of light; transparent
  2. adj. easily understood; clear

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  2. adj. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

Etymologies

  1. From Latin pellūcidus, from per- ("very") + lūcidus ("clear, bright") (from whence lucid), from lūceō ("shine, be visible"). Compare clear, crystal clear, both also with literal meaning “transparent” but metaphorical meaning “easily understood”. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin pellūcidus, from pellūcēre, to shine through : per-, through; see per- + lūcēre, to shine; see leuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. transparent
  1. clear
  1. limpid
  1. translucent
  1. intelligible

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘pellucid’

  1. clear

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. limpid
  2. unclouded
  3. translucent
  4. lucid
  1. glassy
  2. azure
  3. crystalline
  4. dreamlike
  1. nacreous
  2. blue-green
  3. diaphanous
  4. pearly
  1. lustrous
  2. luminous
  3. colourless
  4. unruffled
  1. tranquil
  2. unlined
  3. unemphatic
  4. succinct
  1. ethereal
  2. ice-cold

reverse dictionary (35)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pellucent
  2. subpellucid
  3. diaphanous
  4. hyaline
  5. hyalite
  6. hydatid
  7. ice plant
  1. crystal
  2. citrine
  3. canderos
  4. pellucidness
  5. semipellucid
  6. brewsterite
  7. coolweed
  1. glass-snail
  2. pellucid
  3. limpid
  4. crystalline
  5. crystal clear
  6. moonstone
  7. orient
  1. pellucidity
  2. pellucidly
  3. piney dammar
  4. richweed
  5. topaz
  6. transparent
  7. vacuole
  1. white of egg
  2. clear
  3. clearweed
  4. hymenophyllum
  5. lucid
  6. per
  7. white

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  1. light
  1. latin origin

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  • jaime_d From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport Jan 19, 2010

  • sionnach adj: "translucent, with the incomparable clarity of a world-class Brazilian soccer player at the top of his game, or the glowing incandescence of a Hawaiian volcano goddess". Jan 26, 2009

  • rolig Oh, I wear several hats. Jan 25, 2009

  • reesetee Lucky you. They don't give out hats for my type. ;-> Jan 25, 2009

  • rolig I do have a hat that says "COPY EDITOR", yes. Jan 24, 2009

  • reesetee Nah, you don't owe me anything. Just teasing. It's an editor thing, I guess (the three of us are editors of varying sorts, yes?). Jan 23, 2009

  • rolig Thanks, Rt! It's been a busy week. I owe you one. Jan 23, 2009

  • reesetee All right, all right. There are only so many times you can use my "too lazy to look it up" phrase to get me to look things up for you. ;-)

    Must...look...up....

    YES! It was the capital of Macedonia!

    Eesh. I need a life. Jan 23, 2009

  • rolig Wasn't Pella the capital of Philip of Macedon and his son Alex?
    *too lazy to look it up* Jan 23, 2009

  • reesetee Funny, I always assumed that. But then you had to go and pique my curiosity and post the Pella website. Here's what I found:

    1925
    Pete and Lucille Kuyper invest in a small Des Moines, Iowa company that manufactures Rolscreen® window screens

    1926
    The Kuypers move the company to their hometown of Pella, Iowa

    So now I'm wondering: Was Pella, IA, named after "pellucid"? ;-) Jan 23, 2009

  • chained_bear I imagine it may have been the inspiration for Pella windows. Signed, Too Lazy to Read the Company Site to Find Out. Jan 21, 2009

  • super-logos Yes, the word, perlucid, were there one, would never work. Thank God for ancestors who used prefixes and suffixes mellifluously. Aug 19, 2008

  • rolig I think it is a lovely word, with light – lux – shining through (per > pel) from its core, with the tintinnabulation of the initial pell- sound. There is nothing whatsoever opaque about this word. Aug 19, 2008

  • shevek This sounds like it could be the name of a Turkish dynasty. Aug 19, 2008

  • renumeratedfrog As ironic as it may be, using the word "pellucid" in a sentence makes it anything but that. Aug 19, 2008

  • minerva I am glad she wept so much, because no heart bursts (be the occasion for the sorrow what it will) which has that kindly relief. Hence I hardly ever am moved at the sight of these pellucid fugitives in a fine woman.

    Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Dec 11, 2007

  • samoritan This word has to be on my short list of all-time faves. May 23, 2007

  • seanmeade allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent. Mar 26, 2007

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