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Definition of pellucid:
Synonyms:
intelligible, cloudy, milky, clear-cut, logical, unequivocal, broad, cobwebby, easy, understandable, opaque, see-through, evident, crystal clear, sheer, guileless, unambivalent, perspicuous, nonambiguous, barefaced, lucid, patent, luminous, hazy, make sense, apparent, diaphanous, obvious, vaporous, vapourous, plain, distinct, unmistakable, liquid, bright-line, palpable, decided, clear, bald-faced, limpid, bald, straightforward, transparent, unambiguous, ringing, filmy, gauzy, crystal, touch, translucent, luculent, crystalline, gossamer, explicit, manifest, lucent, coherent, simple, unadorned, open-and-shut, gauze-like.
Usage examples:
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The water was rushing rapidly down the glen; we found several fine rock- basins- one in particular was nine or ten feet deep, the pellucid element descending into it from a small cascade of the rocks above; this was the largest sheet of water per se I had yet discovered upon this expedition.
- "Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance Of Exploration, Being A Narrative Compiled From The Journals Of Five Exploring Expeditions Into And Through Central South Australia, And Western Australia, From 1", Ernest Giles. -
Moreover, the pellucid atmosphere of the Staked Plain makes objects visible at double the ordinary distance.
- "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid. -
We got down to the shore of the bay, at last, and I quite agree with Thackeray that it is a world's wonder, with its rock- strewn shore and emerald islands and pellucid water, framed in, all about, by rugged mountains.
- "The Charm of Ireland", Burton Egbert Stevenson.