Search Result for "limpid":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. clear and bright;
- Example: "the liquid air of a spring morning"
- Example: "eyes shining with a liquid luster"
- Example: "limpid blue eyes"
[syn: liquid, limpid]
2. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
- Example: "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"
- Example: "crystal clear skies"
- Example: "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"
- Example: "lucid air"
- Example: "a pellucid brook"
- Example: "transparent crystal"
[syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent]
3. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
- Example: "writes in a limpid style"
- Example: "lucid directions"
- Example: "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton
- Example: "pellucid prose"
- Example: "a crystal clear explanation"
- Example: "a perspicuous argument"
[syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Limpid \Lim"pid\ (l[i^]m"p[i^]d), a. [L. limpidus; akin to Gr. la`mpein to shine: cf. F. limpide. Cf. Lamp.] 1. Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. [1913 Webster] Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. --Woodward. 2. Clear and unambiguous; lucid; easy to understand; -- of speech and writing; as, limpid prose. [PJC] 3. Calm, untroubled, and without worry; serene. [PJC] Syn: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "limpid": Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, light-pervious, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, refined, restrained, revealing, round, see-through, sheer, simple, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, well-defined
