Perspicuous

Definition: Perspicuous

Perspicuous

Adjective

1. (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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "perspicuous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Etymology: Perspicuous \Per*spic"u*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression perspicuus, from perspicere to look through. See Perspective.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Perspicuous

Intelligibility

Adjective: intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent.

Crosswords: Perspicuous

Books

• These perspicuous verses : a passage from the writings of Bahá�u�lláh (reference)

• A Musical Manual or Technical Directory: Containing Full and Perspicuous Explanations of All the Tererg. L Protection / Rmony of the Gospels, Maps Tim (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i qartë (apparent, articulate, candid, clear, clear-cut, definite, distinct, evident, explicit, express, fair, formal, Frank, in focus, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, neat, obvious, open and shut, palpable, patent, plain, readable, self evident, serene, simple, tangible, unambiguous, unequivocal, visible, well-defined, well-marked), i kthjellët (bright, clear, clear-sighted, cloudless, fair, light, limpid, liquid, lucid, luminary, pellucid, sober, unclouded). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقي (fresh, lucid, neat, pure, refined, spruce, sweet), ‏واضح (apparent, bold, broad, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, plain, plump, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, seeming, sharp, specific, transparent, trenchant, visible), ‏صاف (bright, clear, fair, fine, lucid, net, pellucid, placid, pure, puristic, raw, round, serene, sincere, stark, unclouded). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), с ясна мисъл, лесно разбираем, прегледен. (various references)

Czech

zjevný (apparent, manifest, overt, palpable, patent), zřetelný (articulate, audible, broad, clear, conspicuous, distinct, distinctive, marked, obvious, plain, pronounced). (various references)

Farsi 

واضح (Clear, Crystalline, Ditinct, Explicit, Graphic, Lucid, Obvious, Overt, Palpable, Plain, Vivid), صریح (Abstract, Clear, Definite, Explicit, Express, Frank, Open, Precise, Punctual, Straight, Unequivocal), روشن (Alight, Alive, Bright, Definite, Diaphanous, Ditinct, Eidetic, Elucidate, Explicit, Express, Intelligible, Legible, Limpid, Lucid, Serene, Set, Shrill, Sunny, Unequivocal, Vivid), شفاف (Crystal, Crystalline, Diaphanous, Elucidate, Lucid, Sleek, Transparent). (various references)

French

net, lucide (pellucid), clair (pellucid). (various references)

German

klar (articulate, articulative, bold, clean, clean-cut, clear, clearly, crisp, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicitly, fair, intelligibly, limpid, lucid, lucidly, manifest, obvious, perspicacious, perspicuously, plain, plainly, precise, rather, ready, sure, transparent, unclouded, understood, unobscured, white, yeah), deutlich (appreciable, articulate, articulately, bold, broad, broadly, clear, clearly, conspicuous, decided, distinct, distinct (from), distinctly, explicit, explicitly, flat, lucid, manifest, marked, notedly, noticeable, noticeably, obvious, perceptible, plain, plainly, pronounced). (various references)

Greek 

ευκρινήσ (articulate, distinct), διαυγήσ (clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid). (various references)

Hebrew 

בהיר ביטוי. (various references)

Hungarian

világos (as clear as daylight, as easy as falling off a log, bright, broad, clear, clear-cut, crystal clear, distinct, explicit, it is clear that, lager, legible, light, lightning-like, lucid, luminous, pellucid, plain, self-evident, simple, that is easy to see, transparent, white), tiszta (blank, by the merest chance, chaste, clean, clear, distinct, fine, franchised, hygienic, legible, light, limpid, neat, net, open and shut, pellucid, platonic, proof spirit, pure, saintly, sheer, sinless, sky clear, tabula rasa, transparent), érthetõ (comprehensible, emphatic, intelligible, lucid, understandable). (various references)

Italian

perspicuo, nitido (acute, caustic, clear, keen, limpid, sharp, well-defined), chiaro (apparent, articulate, blond, bright, broad, clean-cut, clear, clearly, downright, emphatic, evident, explicit, express, fair, frankly, intelligible, light, lucid, obvious, overt, pale, plain, pure, sharp, sheer, straightforward, vivid). (various references)

Manx

soilshagh (illuminant, illuminative, light, lucent, lucid, luminescent). (various references)

Pig Latin

erspicuouspay

Portuguese

clareza (clarity, distinctness, explicitness, lucidity, plainness). (various references)

Romanian

transparent (clear, fine-spun, flimsy, gauzy, glasslike, glassy, hyaloid, lucent, pellucid, thin, translucent, transparent), strãveziu (bright, clear, fine-spun, gauzy, lucent, pellucid, pure, semipellucid, translucent, transpicuous), limpede (avowedly, bright, clear, crystal, definite, distinct, evident, expressly, fair, honest, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, manifestly, nakedly, obvious, overt, patently, perspicuously, plain, precise, pure, serene, sheer, sure), 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, pellucid, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable). (various references)

Russian 

ясный (articulate, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, definite, direct, distinct, fine, lucid, matter of course, obvious, pellucid, pronounced, self-explanatory, unshadowed, vivid), понятный (apprehensible, aprehensible, clear, cogitable, coherent, comprehensible, foolproof, intelligible, lucid, obvious, pellucid, straight-forward, transparent, understandable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

providan (clear, gauzy, limpid, pellucid, transparent), razgovetan (clear, distinct, sharp cut), jasan (bright, broad, clear, distinct, downright, manifest, obvious, plain, sharp cut, vivid). (various references)

Spanish

perspicuo. (various references)

Swedish

överskådlig (easy to survey, lucid). (various references)

Turkish

belli (apparent, avowed, broad, broadly, certain, clear, conspicuous, explicit, express, given, known, manifest, noticeable, palpable, particular, patent, precise, precisely, prominent, self evident, shadowless, specific, stated, translucent, unmistakable, upfront, waisted, well-marked), aşikâr (apparent, clear, distinct, evident, evidential, evidentiary, explicit, flagrant, manifest, overt, patent, unconcealed), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukranian 

ясний (articulate, categorical, clean-cut, clear, cloudless, coherent, definite, determinate, distinct, elegant, explicative, explicatory, fine, limpid, lucid, neat, nude, obvious, orotund, pellucid, plain, robust, trenchant), явний (apparent, bald-faced, barefaced, blatant, broad, declared, evident, Frank, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, overt, patent, pronounced, unequivocal, visible), зрозумілий (apprehensible, clear, coherent, comprehensible, conceivable, fool-proof, intelligible, legible, lucid, natural, obvious, pellucid, plain, transparent, understandable, understood), прозорий (bright, clear, crystal clear, crystalline, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, liquid, pellucid, see through, sheer, transparent, unclouded). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dễ hiểu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "perspicuous": perspicuously, perspicuousness, perspicuousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Perspicuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perspicious, perspicous, perspicuos. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: supercops.

-3 letters: corpuses, croppies, cupreous, precious, purposes, scuppers, specious, spurious, supercop, supposer, uprouses.

-4 letters: copiers, coppers, corpses, courses, croppie, croupes, cruises, cuppers, cuppier, cuprous, curious, euripus, oppress, percuss, piceous, poisers, popsies, poseurs, poussie, precoup, process, prossie, prussic, purpose, pursues, pussier, recoups, scupper, serious, sippers, soppier, soupier, sources, spicers, spruces, sucrose, suppers, suppose, suspire.

+2 letters: perspicuously.

+4 letters: perspicuousness.

+5 letters: superspeculation.

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