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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LU'CID, a. [L. lucidus, from luceo, to shine. See Light.]
1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as the lucid orbs of heaven.
2. Clear; transparent; pellucid; as a lucid stream.
3. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as the lucid intervals of a deranged man.
4. Clear; distinct; presenting a clear view; easily understood; as a lucid order or arrangement.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (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]
2: having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness"
3: capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: coherent, logical, lucid]
4: 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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin lucidus, from luc?re Date: 1591 1. a. suffused with light ; luminous b. translucent <snorkeling in the lucid sea> 2. having full use of one's faculties ; sane 3. clear to the understanding ; intelligible Synonyms: see clear • lucidly adverb • lucidness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 expressing or expressed clearly; easy to understand. 2 of or denoting intervals of sanity between periods of insanity or dementia. 3 Bot. with a smooth shining surface. 4 poet. bright. Derivatives: lucidity n. lucidly adv. lucidness n. Etymology: L lucidus (perh. through F lucide or It. lucido) f. lucere shine (as LUX)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lucid Lu"cid, a. [L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See Light, n.] 1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven. Lucid, like a glowworm. --Sir I. Newton. A court compact of lucid marbles. --Tennyson. 2. Clear; transparent. `` Lucid streams.'' --Milton. 3. Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear. A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate. --Macaulay. 4. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval. Syn: Luminous; bright; clear; transparent; sane; reasonable. See Luminous.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Lucid writing or speech is clear and easy to understand. ...a lucid account of the history of mankind... His prose as always lucid and compelling. = clear ADJ • lucidly Both of them had the ability to present complex matters lucidly. = clarity ADV: ADV with v • lucidity His writings were marked by an extraordinary lucidity and elegance of style. 2. If someone is lucid, they are thinking clearly again after a period of illness or confusion. (FORMAL) He wasn't very lucid, he didn't quite know where he was. ADJ • lucidity The pain had lessened in the night, but so had his lucidity.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Shining, radiant, bright, beaming, resplendent, brilliant, luminous. 2. Clear, transparent, pure, pellucid, limpid, diaphanous, crystalline, luculent. 3. Distinct, intelligible, perspicuous, plain, clear, rational, luculent. 4. Sane, sober, sound (in mind), reasonable.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, Ciceronian, all there, apprehensible, balanced, beaming, bright, brilliant, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, clearheaded, clearminded, cloudless, coherent, compos mentis, comprehensible, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, effulgent, elegant, explicit, express, fathomable, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, graspable, healthy-minded, incandescent, intelligible, knowable, lambent, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, luculent, luminous, lustrous, mentally sound, natural, neat, nonopaque, normal, of sound mind, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, radiant, rational, reasonable, refined, refulgent, relucent, restrained, revealing, right, round, sane, sane-minded, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, sensible, serene, sheer, simple, sound, sound-minded, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, together, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined, wholesome