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Word entry · 5 letters

lucid

Best crossword clue

"clear"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cdiluStarts with LEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

Word origin

Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
  • The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.
  • Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]

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