Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily understood or seen through.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Transparent; pervious to the sight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Transparent; pervious to the sight.
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- adjective Easily
construed orseen through .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The joy of an infant, or joy-generation, without significance to an unprofound and common mind -- how strange to see the excess of pathos in that; yet men of any (or at least of much) sensibility see in this a transpicuous masque for another form, viz., the eternal ground of sorrow in all human hearts.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Of this opinion also was _Cæsar la Galla_, whose words are these, [2] “The Moone doth there appeare clearest, where shee is transpicuous, not onely through the superficies, but the substance also, and there she seemes spotted, where her body is most opacous.”
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643
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778: Sent from her through the wide transpicuous aire,
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
jeffazi commented on the word transpicuous
clearly seen through or understood
Example sentence: Although the reporter claimed to be merely curious, her motives were quite transpicuous; it was clear that she was hunting a story.
November 13, 2007
yarb commented on the word transpicuous
I don't see how this adds to conspicuous or transparent.
November 14, 2007
reesetee commented on the word transpicuous
That's English for you. ;-)
November 14, 2007