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crystal clear

adj

Etymology

From Middle English cristal cleer. Emphatic form of clear in visual and metaphorical “understandable” senses. Compare clear as a bell (“very clear (of sound)”).

  1. inherited from cristal cleer

Definitions

  1. Completely clear (in various senses).

    • Reread through the manual until the instructions are crystal clear in your head.
    • Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

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Derived

crystal clearly, crystally clear

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA