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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. clear and bright;
- Example: "the liquid air of a spring morning"
- Example: "eyes shining with a liquid luster"
- Example: "limpid blue eyes"
[syn: liquid, limpid]

2. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
- Example: "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"
- Example: "crystal clear skies"
- Example: "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"
- Example: "lucid air"
- Example: "a pellucid brook"
- Example: "transparent crystal"
[syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent]

3. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
- Example: "writes in a limpid style"
- Example: "lucid directions"
- Example: "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton
- Example: "pellucid prose"
- Example: "a crystal clear explanation"
- Example: "a perspicuous argument"
[syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Limpid \Lim"pid\ (l[i^]m"p[i^]d), a. [L. limpidus; akin to Gr.
   la`mpein to shine: cf. F. limpide. Cf. Lamp.]
   1. Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a
      limpid stream.
      [1913 Webster]

            Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid.
                                                  --Woodward.

   2. Clear and unambiguous; lucid; easy to understand; -- of
      speech and writing; as, limpid prose.
      [PJC]

   3. Calm, untroubled, and without worry; serene.
      [PJC]

   Syn: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal;
        translucent; bright.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

limpid
    adj 1: clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning";
           "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"
           [syn: liquid, limpid]
    2: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
       "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear
       skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid
       pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal"
       [syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid,
       pellucid, transparent]
    3: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
       "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent
       oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear
       explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid,
       lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear,
       perspicuous]