Lucid
['luːsɪd] or ['lusɪd]
Definition
(adj.) having a clear mind; 'a lucid moment in his madness' .
Typist: Melville--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
(n.) Clear; transparent.
(n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
(n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
Edited by Elsie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Shining, radiant, luminous, bright, beaming, resplendent, effulgent.[2]. Clear, transparent, pure, pellucid, limpid, diaphanous, crystalline.[3]. Distinct, intelligible, perspicuous, plain.[4]. Sane, sober, sound (in mind).
Editor: Louise
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shining, bright, resplendent, Incident, luminous, clear, trans_parent,crystalline, pellucid, distinct, intelligible, rational, perspicuous, orderly,limpid, lucent, easily_under, stood
ANT:Dark, unlustrous, opaque, turbid, muddy, obscure, unintelligible, confused,unsolved, insane, mystified
Checker: Max
Definition
adj. shining: transparent: easily understood: intellectually bright: not darkened with madness.—ns. Lucid′ity Lū′cidness.—adv. Lū′cidly.—ns. Luc′ifer the planet Venus when it appears as the morning-star: Satan: a match of wood tipped with a combustible substance ignited by friction.—adjs. Lucifē′rian Lucif′erous of or pertaining to Lucifer: bearing light: affording means of discovery; Lucif′ugal Lucif′ugous shunning light.—n. Lucim′eter an instrument for measuring the intensity and duration of sunshine in promoting evaporation.
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Examples
- I have a great deal to say, if I could get it out in lucid order, which I never _can_ do. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am wakeful: my mind is remarkably lucid. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The idea that he should never see her again depressed him in his lucid hours. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His mind is lucid and flexible, and he has the faculty of taking advice quickly, of stating something he has borrowed with more ease and subtlety than the specialist from whom he got it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr Plornish amiably growled, in his philosophical but not lucid manner, that there was ups you see, and there was downs. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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