Limpid
['lɪmpɪd]
Definition
(adj.) (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' .
Edited by Beverly--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.
Edited by Anselm
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Clear, lucid, pure, bright, transparent, pellucid.
Editor: Mervin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Transparent, translucent, crystalline, pure, lucid, clear
ANT:Opaque, turbid, luteous, foul, muddy
Checker: Sondra
Definition
adj. clear: shining: transparent: pure.—ns. Limpid′ity Lim′pidness.—adv. Lim′pidly.
Checker: Percy
Examples
- No soft sense of domestic intimacy ever opened our hearts, or thawed our language and made it flow easy and limpid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- People say that Tahoe means Silver Lake--Limpid Water--Falling Leaf. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Her large eyes were limpid and almost colourless; they seemed to be very little affected by light, and to stand unnaturally still. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Percy