[
UK
/lˈɪmpɪd/
]
ADJECTIVE
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transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
lucid air
a pellucid brook
transparent crystal
the cold crystalline water of melted snow
could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool
crystal clear skies -
clear and bright
the liquid air of a spring morning
eyes shining with a liquid luster
limpid blue eyes -
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
pellucid prose
a luculent oration
writes in a limpid style
lucid directions
a crystal clear explanation
a perspicuous argument
How To Use limpid In A Sentence
- Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
- Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic? An Autobiography
- Seen from the above, the lake resembles a pair of limpid eyes.
- He knows where the work's heart lies and how to conjure its spell from the music 's limpid simplicity and antiquarian turns of phrase. Times, Sunday Times
- It's full of phonemes, guttural exclamations and limpid hisses.
- The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
- Overall, the tonal balance, flattening of forms and coolness of colouring projects a feeling of utter limpidity.
- I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and professed his honorable intentions.
- a few whitish bristles; pectus whitish; hind borders of the abdominal segments ferruginous; legs testaceous; femora striped with black; tarsi black, ferruginous at the base; wings limpid, blackish at the tips; costa deep black, incrassated in the middle; halteres testaceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
- He thought the speech a model of its kind, limpid and unaffected.