Synonyms of crystalline

crystalline

adjective

ˈkri-stə-lən 

as in crystal

easily seen through

we could see fish swimming beneath the crystalline ice of the frozen lake

Synonyms & Similar Words

• crystal
• transparent
• liquid
• clear
• limpid
• pellucid
• translucent
• lucent
• lucid
• sheer
• crystal clear
• see-through
• colorless
• uncolored
• diaphanous
• glassy
• semitransparent
• vitreous
• semitranslucent
• transparentized

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• opaque
• colored
• cloudy
• dark
• dense
• smoky
• misty
• hazy
• nebulous
• foggy
• glazed
• tinted
• turbid
• muddy
• murky
• filmy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of crystalline

That’s a smile piece, too, although Ono looks all business holding a crystalline hammer on the catalog cover photo. — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

Quantum dots are crystalline semiconductor particles roughly 60 million times smaller than a tennis ball, typically featuring a core-shell structure. — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 July 2026

The dialogue, terse and contemporary, puts his distinguished cast of actors in their comfort zone and turns ancient, iridescently complex figures crystalline and hard-edged. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

That process is called carbonation, in which carbon dioxide from the air seeps into the concrete and reacts with calcium-rich compounds, leaving behind calcite, a hard crystalline mineral. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 11 July 2026