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Definition: TRANSPICUOUS |
TRANSPICUOUSAdjective1. Transparent; pervious to the sight. |
Date "TRANSPICUOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Transpicuous \Tran*spic"u*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression transpicere to see or look through specere, spicere, to see. Compare to Conspicuous.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intelligibility | Adjective: intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TRANSPICUOUS |
| English words defined with "TRANSPICUOUS": Intertranspicuous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TRANSPICUOUS": Intertranspicuous. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TRANSPICUOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i tejdukshëm (clear, diaphanous, glassy, hyaline, lucid, pellucid, sheer, translucent, transparent, vitreous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anspicuoustray transparente (articulate, clear, filmy, gauzy, glassy, lucid, pellucid, translucent, transparent), límpido (articulate, crystal, luculent, pellucid, pure, serene, transparent, unclouded), diáfano (pellucid, sheer, transparent), claro (articulate, bright, broad, certain, clean, clear, clearly, distinct, evident, fair, flyaway, fresh, light, lightsome, limpid, lucent, lucid, luculent, neat, obvious, open, open-and-shut, overt, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainspoken, pure, self-explanatory, simple, slip-on, specific, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unclouded, unequivocal, unmistakable, water-repellent, watertight). (various references) strãveziu (bright, clear, fine-spun, gauzy, lucent, pellucid, perspicuous, pure, semipellucid, translucent). (various references) прозрачный (clear, crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, gauzy, limpid, lucent, lucid, pellucid, serene, sheer, transparent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: usurpations. | |
-2 letters: rainspouts, suctorians, supinators, usurpation. | |
-3 letters: croissant, piscators, rainspout, suctorian, supinator. | |
-4 letters: airposts, apricots, arsonist, atropins, auctions, autopsic, cantrips, captions, captious, carotins, cautions, cautious, cistrons, courants, curtains, incrusts, narcists, narcosis, opuntias, outspans, pactions, parsonic, piscator, potassic, prosaist, protasis, puissant, puritans, pursuant, pursuits, rainouts, ructions, ructious, santours, sautoirs, scarious, spacious, spinouts, spirants, spurious, suctions. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-o-p-r-s-s-t-u-u" | |
+4 letters: superspeculation. | |
+5 letters: superfecundations, superspeculations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 52 41 4E 53 50 49 43 55 4F 55 53 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -. ... .--. .. -.-. ..- --- ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010010 01000001 01001110 01010011 01010000 01001001 01000011 01010101 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T R A N S P I C U O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0052 0041 004E 0053 0050 0049 0043 0055 004F 0055 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)545235485350433755495553 |
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