![]() ![]() And the o͞o sound (reminiscent of the word moon?) is delightful to speak and to hear. But on reflection, I think it’s the entire word: pəˈlo͞osid / The “pell” makes me think of a bell. Initially, I thought my favourable response could be attributed to the double L sound. Too bad, because I think it’s an extraordinarily beautiful one. The poem was easy to understand because of its pellucid style. Because the story was not written in a pellucid manner, its plot was difficult to understand. Pellucid is most commonly used to describe something that is translucent. ![]() the similar prose of an ally for offering a pellucid window onto the truth. Pellucid in a Sentence The contract was pellucid and left no confusion about each party’s responsibilities. Want to learn more Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge. Pellucid Sentence Examples D, Each of the four segment-cells gives rise by division to a small pellucid cell. pellucid adjective literary approving / plu.sd / very clear and shining the pellucid light of a spring morning the pellucid water very clear in meaning and easy to understand He writes in pellucid prose. Dictionary Thesaurus Sentences Examples Knowledge Grammar Biography. It refers to corneal thinning and I imagine that’s why the doctor who invented the term expropriated the word. Conclusion: The Sentence Fetish was published in Crises of the Sentence on. Pellucid definition: Admitting the passage of light transparent or translucent. could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool. the cold crystalline water of melted snow. Synonyms : crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, transparent. Incidentally, there is also an eye disease called pellucid marginal degeneration. (adj) transmitting light able to be seen through with clarity. The adjective, which dates to the 1610s, comes from the Latin pellucidus meaning “transparent.” And this, in turn, comes from from pellucere meaning to “shine through,” from per- “through” and lucere “to shine.” forgivable imaginable knowable legible likely lucid pellucid plain readable simple unambiguous. There was a smattering of hair across his scalp, but his eyes were a pellucid blue.įrequently used to describe eyes, the word means “clear” or “translucent” or “something that allows the maximum passage of light.” It also can be used metaphorically, to describe something clear in meaning, expression or style, such as pellucid writing. Capable of being understood: an understandable sentence. Because the story was not written in a pellucid manner, its plot was. Here is the sentence in which he used it: The contract was pellucid and left no confusion about each partys responsibilities. I encountered it, recently, when I read the book Let the Great World Spin, by Column McCann. There are certain words I like mainly because of the sound of them. Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. ![]()
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