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pellucid

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of pellucid

1 easily seen through
  • the pellucid waters that lap upon that island's beaches
Synonyms of pellucid

clear, crystal, crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, liquid, lucent, see-through, transparent
Words Related to pellucid

colorless, uncolored

diaphanous, lucid, semitranslucent, semitransparent, sheer, translucent
Near Antonyms of pellucid

colored, dark, glazed, tinted

filmy, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, smoky (also smokey)

dense, muddy, murky, turbid
Antonyms of pellucid

cloudy, opaque
2 not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation
  • Her poetry has a pellucid simplicity that betrays none of the sweat that went into writing it.
Synonyms of pellucid

apparent, bald, bald-faced, barefaced, broad, clear, clear-cut, crystal clear, decided, distinct, evident, lucid, luminous, manifest, nonambiguous, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perspicuous, plain, straightforward, transparent, unambiguous, unambivalent, unequivocal, unmistakable
Words Related to pellucid

comprehendible, comprehensible, digestible, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, understandable

self-evident, self-explanatory

clean-cut, simple, tidy, uncomplicated

overt, undisguised

appreciable, perceptible, recognizable, sensible, tangible

discernible (also discernable), noticeable, observable, visible

black-and-white, explicit, trenchant, well-defined

clean, decipherable, fair, legible, readable
Near Antonyms of pellucid

incomprehensible, indecipherable, unfathomable, unintelligible, unknowable

impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable, indiscernible, insensible

cloudy, gauzy, gray (also grey), hazy, imprecise, indefinite, indeterminate, misty, murky, nebulous, noncommittal, sketchy, slippery, subtle, vague

illegible, undecipherable, unreadable
Antonyms of pellucid

ambiguous, clouded, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, indistinct, mysterious, nonobvious, obfuscated, obscure, unapparent, unclarified, unclear, unclouded

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