pellucid

Meanings

Plural: pellucids

Adjective Satellite

transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- "a pellucid brook"
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; ; ; - Robert Burton
- "pellucid prose"

Adj

Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
Easily understood; clear.
Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
Easily recognized or seen through; apparent, obvious.

Noun

Something which allows the passage of light; a translucent or transparent object.

Origin / Etymology

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin pellūcidus, perlucidus (“transparent, pellucid; very bright; very understandable”), from per- (prefix meaning ‘through; throughout; completely, thoroughly’) + lūcidus (“clear; full of light, bright, shining; (figuratively) easily understood, clear, lucid”) (from lūceō (“to shine; to become visible, show through; (figuratively) to be apparent, conspicuous, or evident”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to see; to shine”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Late Latin pellucidum (“transparent substance”)
* Middle French pellucide (modern French pellucide (“pellucid”))

Synonyms

apparent, apprehensible, arrant, bait, blatant, clear, clear as a bell, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear cut, comprehensible, crystal clear, crystalline, cut and dried, decided, diaphanous, elucidate, evident, explainable, explicable, explicatable, eyely, fathomable, glaring, glassy, graspable, hyaline, hyaloid, illuminable, intelligible, intuitive, limpid, lucid, luculent, manifest, notable, noticeable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as Salisbury, plain as the nose on one's face, prima facie, res ipsa loquitur, see-through, serene, straightforward, tangible, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, understandable, undissembled, undoubted, vitreous

Antonyms

comprehensible, manifest, obvious, simple, translucent, transparent, turbid

Scrabble Score: 13

pellucid is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
pellucid is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pellucid is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

pellucid is a valid Words With Friends word