Pellucid

Definitions: Pellucid

Pellucid

Adjective

1. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal".

2. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument".

Date "pellucid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, adjective. [Latin expression pellucidus; per (see Per-) lucidus clear, bright: compare to the French expression pellucide.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Science	More or less transparent. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pellucid

Synonyms: crystal clear (adj), crystalline (adj), limpid (adj), lucid (adj), luculent (adj), perspicuous (adj), transparent (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Pellucid

English words defined with "pellucid": Canderos, crystal clear, crystalline ♦ Hyalite ♦ limpid, lucid ♦ Subpellucid ♦ transparent ♦ White of egg. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pellucid": Horn-book. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	At the Earth's Core Pellucidar, Tamar of Pellucid (reference) How Like Pellucid Statues: Bassoon Quartet (reference) Pellucid paradigm (reference) Pellucid Waters (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	We might say of Cosette that she was pellucid.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Successive nations perchance have drank at, admired, and fathomed it, and passed away, and still its water is green and pellucid as ever.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Pellucid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pellucid" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	11	106,044

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "pellucid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		transparent, i tejdukshëm (clear, diaphanous, glassy, hyaline, lucid, sheer, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, vitreous), i kulluar (crystal, crystalline, liquid, lucent, lucid), i kthjellët (bright, clear, clear-sighted, cloudless, fair, light, limpid, liquid, lucid, luminary, perspicuous, sober, unclouded). (various references)

Arabic		‏واضح (apparent, bold, broad, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, perspicuous, plain, plump, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, seeming, sharp, specific, transparent, trenchant, visible), ‏صاف (bright, clear, fair, fine, lucid, net, perspicuous, placid, pure, puristic, raw, round, serene, sincere, stark, unclouded), ‏شفاف (clear, crystal, diaphanous, filmy, gauze, gauzy, gossamery, limpid, lucid, see through, transparent). (various references)

Bulgarian		ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), разбираем (apprehensible, cogitable, comprehensible, intelligent, intelligible, lucid, luminous, plain, scrutable, straightforward, understandable), чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), бистър (clear, crystal, crystalline, limpid, liquid, lucid, robust, translucent), прозрачен (bright, clear, crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, gauzy, hyaline, limpid, lucent, lucid, peek-a-boo, see through, sheer, transparent, white). (various references)

Czech		prùzraèný (clear, lucid, luminous), jasný (bright, broad, cheerful, clear, clear-cut, definite, distinct, fair, fresh, live, lucid, overt, plain, radiant, serene, sheeny, shinny, straight, sunny, unambiguous, unequivocal, vivid). (various references)

Danish		pellucid. (various references)

Dutch		pellucidus. (various references)

French		pellucide, péllucide, transparent, translucide, lucide (perspicuous), clair (perspicuous). (various references)

German		durchsichtig (clear, diaphanous, limpid, lucid, obvious, see through, transparent, transparently). (various references)

Greek		διαυγήσ (clear, limpid, lucid, perspicuous), διαυγής (clear, limpid), διαφανήσ (clear, diaphanous, limpid, sheer, translucent, transparent), διαφανής (data-transparent, diaphanous, speed-transparent, transparent). (various references)

Hebrew		שקוף (apparent, clear, crystalline, transillumination, transparency, transparent, x ray examination), צלול (clear, limpid, lucid, pure, serene). (various references)

Hungarian		átlátszó (clear, diaphanous, dioptric, dioptrical, gauzy, glassy, hyaline, limpid, see-through, sheer, translucent, transparant, transparent, tricks easily seen through). (various references)

Italian		pellucido. (various references)

Manx		trooid-hoilshagh (translucent), grinn (bad-tempered, bad-tempered person). (various references)

Pig Latin		ellucidpay

Portuguese		transparente (articulate, clear, data-transparent, filmy, gavel, glassy, lucidity, speed-transparent, translucent, transparent, transpicuous), translúcido (diaphanous, translucent), lúcido (clearheaded, limpid, lucid, perspicacious), límpido (articulate, clear, crystal, limpid, luculent, pure, serene, transparent, transpicuous, unclouded), desordenado (deranged, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, immoderate, indigestible, inordinate, lawless, rough and tumble, tumultuous, turbulent, untidy), cristalino (brilliant, crystal, crystalline, crystalline lens, in France:glass with nD between 1.525 and 1.545, limpidity), claro (articulate, bright, broad, certain, clean, clear, clearly, distinct, evident, fair, flyaway, fresh, light, lightsome, limpid, Lucerne, lucid, luculent, neat, obvious, of course, open, open and shut, overt, perspiration, plain, plainspoken, pure, self-explanatory, simple, slip on, specific, tangible, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unclouded, unequivocal, unmistakable, water-repellent, watertight). (various references)

Romanian		perfect inteligibil, transparent (clear, fine-spun, flimsy, gauzy, glasslike, glassy, hyaloid, lucent, perspicuous, thin, translucent, transparent), strãveziu (bright, clear, fine-spun, gauzy, lucent, perspicuous, pure, semipellucid, translucent, transpicuous), lucid (clear, clearly, far sighted, lucid, lucidly), foarte clar, clar (apparent, apparently, articulate, banner, bright, broad, clean, clear, clear-cut, clearly, comprehensible, decided, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicit, express, fair, flat, formal, Frank, incisive, legible, level headed, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, obviously, palpable, patently, perspicuous, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable). (various references)

Russian		прозрачный (clear, crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, gauzy, limpid, lucent, lucid, serene, sheer, transparent, transpicuous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		providan (clear, gauzy, limpid, perspicuous, transparent), bistar (bright, clear, comprehensive, limpid, nimble, orient). (various references)

Spanish		translúcido (translucent). (various references)

Swedish		genomskinlig (diaphanous, limpid, liquid, seethrough, sheer, translucent, transparent). (various references)

Turkish		saydam (clear, hyaloid, liquid, transparent), berrak (bright, brillant, clear, crystalline, distinct, just, limpid, liquid, lucent, lucid, obvious, plain, serene, silvery, speaking, unclouded), şeffaf (clear, crystalline, filmy, gauzy, hyaline, hyalo-, hyaloid, see through, sheer, transparent), anlaşılır (apparent, apprehensible, clear, cognoscible, comprehensible, decipherable, direct, exoteric, inferable, intelligible, lucid, perceptible, understandable, unequivocal). (various references)

Ukranian		ясний (articulate, categorical, clean-cut, clear, cloudless, coherent, definite, determinate, distinct, elegant, explicative, explicatory, fine, limpid, lucid, neat, nude, obvious, orotund, perspicuous, plain, robust, trenchant), зрозумілий (apprehensible, clear, coherent, comprehensible, conceivable, fool-proof, intelligible, legible, lucid, natural, obvious, perspicuous, plain, transparent, understandable, understood), прозорий (bright, clear, crystal clear, crystalline, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, liquid, perspicuous, see through, sheer, transparent, unclouded). (various references)

Vietnamese		trong veo trong sáng, trong suốt (hyaline, limpid), trong (clear, in, limpid, pure, serene), rõ r� ng sáng suốt. (various references)

Welsh		tryloyw (transparent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pellucidus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pellucid": pellucidly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pellucid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belloucif, Bellucci, ellucid, Melluci, Paluccis, pellucida, pellucidly, pelucid, perlucid, pollicid. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "pellucid" (pronounced 'Pel*lu"cid'): Bombycid, Dilucid, flaccid, lucid, Marcid, Mucid, Muscid, Rancid, Raucid, Roscid, Semipellucid, Subdulcid, Subpellucid, Translucid, Viscid. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-l-p-u"
	-1 letter: clupeid, cullied.
	-2 letters: culled, duelli, pilled, pilule, pulled.
	-3 letters: celli, clued, cupel, cupid, duple, lucid, ludic, picul, piled, plied, pudic, puled.
	-4 letters: cedi, ceil, cell, clip, clue, cued, cull, deil, deli, dell, dice, diel, dill, duce, duci, duel, dull, dupe, epic, iced, idle, leud, lice, lied, lieu, lipe, luce, lude, pice, pied, pile, pill.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-l-p-u"
	+2 letters: pellucidly.
	+5 letters: prejudicially, supercollider.
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