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Crystal Clear

Definition: Crystal Clear

Crystal Clear

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".

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


Synonyms: Crystal Clear

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

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Crosswords: Crystal Clear

English words defined with "crystal clear": limpid, lucid, luculentpellucid, perspicuous. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Crystal Clear

DomainTitle

Books

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Photo Album: Crystal Clear

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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.

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

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Spoken Usage: Crystal Clear

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crystal Clear

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crystal clear

102

crystal clear water

20

jaci velasquez crystal clear

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Crystal Clear

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

   

Portuguese

  

claro feito água, claro como cristal. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

прозорий (bright, clear, crystalline, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, liquid, pellucid, perspicuous, see through, sheer, transparent, unclouded). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Crystal Clear

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Spoken
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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