limpid
/'limpid/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Transparently clear; easily understandable: Used to describe language, writing, or speech that is exceptionally clear, simple, and easy to comprehend.
- Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity: Used to describe liquids, air, or substances that are perfectly clear and transparent.
- Clear and bright: Used to describe eyes, light, or colors that are shining, pure, and luminous.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Language):
- The author's limpid prose made the complex topic accessible to all readers.
- Her instructions were limpid and left no room for confusion.
- Adjective (Physical Clarity):
- We swam in the limpid waters of the mountain lake.
- The limpid air after the rain made the distant mountains seem close.
- Adjective (Eyes/Brightness):
- He gazed at her with limpid blue eyes.
- The limpid light of dawn filled the room.
Advanced Usage
- "Limpid clarity": An emphatic phrase describing extreme and perfect clearness.
- The report was praised for its limpid clarity of thought.
- "Limpid pool": A common collocation describing a body of exceptionally clear water.
- The garden featured a small, limpid pool with koi fish.
Variants and Related Words
- Limpidity (n): The quality or state of being limpid; clearness.
- The limpidity of the argument was its greatest strength.
- Limpidly (adv): In a limpid manner.
- She explained the concept limpidly.
Synonyms
- Clear: Free from obscurity or ambiguity.
- Lucid: Expressed clearly; easy to understand.
- Transparent: So fine or sheer as to permit light to pass through; easily seen through or detected.
- Pellucid: Translucently clear (often used interchangeably with ).
- Crystalline: Exceptionally clear and transparent, like crystal.
Antonyms
- Opaque: Not able to be seen through; not transparent. Hard to understand.
- Turbid: Cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter (for liquids).
- Muddy: Not clear or bright; confused or obscure.
- Unclear: Not easy to see, hear, or understand.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- "Limpid as crystal": A simile emphasizing perfect transparency or clarity.
- The stream was limpid as crystal.
- "In limpid terms": Phrasing meaning "in very clear and simple language".
- The treaty was written in limpid terms for public understanding.
Adjective
- (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
- 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
- clear and bright
- the liquid air of a spring morning
- eyes shining with a liquid luster
- limpid blue eyes