lucid
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Italic *loukēō Latin lūceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin lūcidus English lucid Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
- derived from *loukēō Latin lūceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der✻
Definitions
Clear
Clear; easily understood.
- [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
Mentally rational
Mentally rational; sane.
Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
- The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.
- Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]
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A lucid dream.
- The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]
A surname from Irish.
The neighborhood
- synonymperspicuous
- synonymstraightforward
- synonymradiant
- synonympellucid
- synonymsee-through
- synonymtransparent
- synonymtranslucent
- neighbordilucidate
- neighbordilucular
- neighborelucidate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at lucid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at lucid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at lucid
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA