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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (4)
1. 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]
2. so thin as to transmit light;
- Example: "a hat with a diaphanous veil"
- Example: "filmy wings of a moth"
- Example: "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"
- Example: "gossamer cobwebs"
- Example: "sheer silk stockings"
- Example: "transparent chiffon"
- Example: "vaporous silks"
[syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby]
3. free of deceit;
[syn: guileless, transparent]
4. easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety);
- Example: "a transparent explanation"
- Example: "a transparent lie"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Transparent \Trans*par"ent\, a. [F., from LL. transparens, -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to appear. See Appear.] 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque. "Transparent elemental air." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Syn: Translucent; pellucid; clear; bright; limpid; lucid; diaphanous. See Translucent. [1913 Webster] -- Trans*par"ent*ly, adv. -- Trans*par"ent*ness, n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "transparent": apparent, articulate, artless, bluff, blunt, broad, brusque, candid, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear as glass, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, distinguishable, downright, evident, explicit, express, filmy, flimsy, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, gauzy, genuine, glassy, gossamer, gossamery, guileless, heart-to-heart, ingenuous, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, manifest, naive, nonopaque, obvious, on the level, open, openhearted, outspoken, patent, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain-spoken, recognizable, relucent, revealing, round, see-through, serene, sheer, simple, sincere, straight, straight-out, straightforward, thin, translucent, translucid, transpicuous, unambiguous, unchecked, unclouded, unconfused, unconstrained, understandable, undisguised, undissembling, unequivocal, unguarded, univocal, unmistakable, unobscured, unreserved, unrestrained, well-defined
