Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily understood; clear or lucid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bright; luminous; transparent.
- Clear; evident; unmistakable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lucid; clear; transparent.
- adjective Clear; evident; luminous.
- adjective obsolete Bright; shining in beauty.
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- adjective
Shining , brilliant. - adjective obsolete Of language, speeches etc:
lucid , brilliantly clear.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves.
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Gibbon for once arises from defect of information; and when in a note he observes that Mosheim "unfolds the causes with the judgment of a philosopher," while Fleury "transcribes and translates with the prejudices of a Catholic priest," himself gives a luculent example of the errors of philosophy, and of the often unsuspected approach of prejudice to truth.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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Theodoric is one of the most luculent testimonies for that blending of fact and fancy in strictly historical times which people find it so difficult to believe, but which offers the key, and the only true key, for many of the most perplexing problems, both of history and of mythology.
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
palooka commented on the word luculent
Easily understood; clear or lucid. AHD
March 20, 2007
qms commented on the word luculent
I must be unsparingly luculent
In hopes to forestall a fluke event:
Believe not his slander
Nor suffer his pander.
The Donald is truly a spooky gent.
December 19, 2015