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Definition: Crystal Clear |
Crystal ClearAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Crystal ClearSynonyms: crystalline (adj), limpid (adj), lucid (adj), luculent (adj), pellucid (adj), perspicuous (adj), transparent (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crystal Clear |
| English words defined with "crystal clear": limpid, lucid, luculent ♦ pellucid, perspicuous. (references) |
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High Tech |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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![]() | Crystal clear glacial ice. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | A crystal clear day from near the San Juan Islands Mount Baker visible in the distance. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | CTD rosette visible in crystal clear waters. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Big Spring in southern Missouri paints a picture of the birth of a crystal clear stream. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
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Mark Shields | Bob, contrary to the defensiveness of some church leaders, Archbishop Flynn was crystal clear and emphatic. He praised the media for bringing this scandal, this crisis in the Church to public light and forcing the Church to act upon it. |
Tommy Thompson | Well, the president has spoken very eloquently on it. And he's said that we are not going to support any kind of cloning whatsoever, either therapeutic or reproductive cloning. And the president has made that crystal clear, and I support the president. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crystal clear | 102 |
crystal clear water | 20 |
jaci velasquez crystal clear | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "crystal clear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | naprosto jasný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kristallklar, kristallen (crystalline). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kristálytiszta (crystal, crystalline, pellucid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ystalcray earclay claro feito água, claro como cristal. (various references) claro (apparent, break, bright, bright interval, broad, celestial, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, clearing, clearly, dainty, definite, direct, discharged, distinct, evident, fair, gap, glade, it is clear, light, lightsome, liquid, obvious, of course, opening, pellucid, plain, precise, rift, sure, thin, transparent, unshadowed, weak). (various references) прозорий (bright, clear, crystalline, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, liquid, pellucid, perspicuous, see through, sheer, transparent, unclouded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-l-r-r-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: acrylates, carryalls. | |
-4 letters: acrylate, acylates, allayers, astrally, caecally, calycate, calyceal, calycles, carrells, carryall, catcalls, lacteals, laterals, rascally, rectally, retrally, scarcely. | |
-5 letters: acetals, acetyls, acylate, alertly, allayer, areally, astylar, calcars, callers, callets, calyces, calycle, carates, carcase, carcels, carrell, carrels, cartels, carters, catcall, cecally, cellars, clarets, clearly, clyster, craters, crestal, crystal, cyclase, cyclers, erratas, lactary. | |
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