Difference between lucid and perspicuous

lucid

Definitions

adjective

  1. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  2. having a clear mind
  3. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
  4. capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

Examples

Looking radiantly healthy - in contrast to her wan mien of recent months - she lucidly defended herself the interviewers tried to extract an apology from her.

He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.

The actors and actresses spoke well - the entire dialogue was very lucid and clear.

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perspicuous

Definitions

adjective

  1. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

Examples

Review of Erasmus 'Preface" Luther answers Erasmus 'charge that the bible is not plain or "perspicuous" (hence the need to obey and submit to the authoritative interpretation of the Church)

But, somehow, for Obamalogists like DTM, all the overt quid pro quos won by the parasites IN “backroom deals” are betrayed by the expertly constructed rhetoric which reveal only to the most perspicuous reader of official texts, the super-coy machinations of O which will deliver HCR that is good HCR behind the backs of very powerful patrons who oppose HCR.

Referring to "the Model of Autonomous Learning", we can perspicuously illustrate how and to what extent a computer assists autonomous language learning.

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