pellucid

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pellucid
    adj 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 crystal" [syn: {crystalline}, {crystal
           clear}, {limpid}, {lucid}, {pellucid}, {transparent}]
    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" [syn: {limpid},
       {lucid}, {luculent}, {pellucid}, {crystal clear},
       {perspicuous}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pellucid \Pel*lu"cid\, a. [L. pellucidus; per (see {Per-}) +
   lucidus clear, bright: cf. F. pellucide.]
   Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
   "Pellucid crystal." --Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams."
   --Wordsworth.
   [1913 Webster] Pellucidity
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "pellucid":
      Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear,
      clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, cloudless, coherent,
      connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline,
      defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy,
      elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer,
      gossamery, graceful, gracile, light, light-pervious, lightish,
      lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent,
      luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, perspicuous, plain,
      polished, pure, refined, relucent, restrained, revealing, round,
      see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, serene, sheer, simple,
      straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, translucid,
      transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous,
      unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored,
      unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined

    

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