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limpid (encz) | limpid,čirý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
limpid (encz) | limpid,průzračný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Limpid (gcide) | Limpid \Lim"pid\ (l[i^]m"p[i^]d), a. [L. limpidus; akin to Gr.
la`mpein to shine: cf. F. limpide. Cf. Lamp.]
1. Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a
limpid stream.
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Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid.
--Woodward.
2. Clear and unambiguous; lucid; easy to understand; -- of
speech and writing; as, limpid prose.
[PJC]
3. Calm, untroubled, and without worry; serene.
[PJC]
Syn: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal;
translucent; bright.
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limpid (wn) | limpid
adj 1: clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning";
"eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"
[syn: liquid, limpid]
2: 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]
3: (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] |
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limpidity (encz) | limpidity,čirost n: Zdeněk Brož |
limpidly (encz) | limpidly, |
limpidness (encz) | limpidness, |
Limpid (gcide) | Limpid \Lim"pid\ (l[i^]m"p[i^]d), a. [L. limpidus; akin to Gr.
la`mpein to shine: cf. F. limpide. Cf. Lamp.]
1. Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a
limpid stream.
[1913 Webster]
Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid.
--Woodward.
2. Clear and unambiguous; lucid; easy to understand; -- of
speech and writing; as, limpid prose.
[PJC]
3. Calm, untroubled, and without worry; serene.
[PJC]
Syn: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal;
translucent; bright.
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Limpidity (gcide) | Limpidity \Lim*pid"i*ty\ (l[i^]m*p[i^]d"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L.
limpiditas: cf. F. limpidit['e].]
The quality or state of being limpid.
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Limpidness (gcide) | Limpidness \Lim"pid*ness\ (l[i^]m"p[i^]d*n[e^]s), n.
Quality of being limpid; limpidity.
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limpidity (wn) | limpidity
n 1: free from obscurity and easy to understand; the
comprehensibility of clear expression [syn: clarity,
lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness,
limpidity] [ant: abstruseness, obscureness,
obscurity, reconditeness, unclearness]
2: passing light without diffusion or distortion [syn:
pellucidness, pellucidity, limpidity] |
limpidly (wn) | limpidly
adv 1: in a clear and lucid manner; "this is a lucidly written
book" [syn: lucidly, pellucidly, limpidly,
perspicuously] |
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