limpid
lim·pid
adjective
1.
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 cristal”
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”
Origin
From French limpide, from Latin limpidus.
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