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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PERSPIC'UOUS, a. [L.perspicuus.]
Transparent; translucent. [Little used.]
1. Clear to the understanding; that may be clearly understood; not obscure or ambiguous. Language is perspicuous when it readily presents to the reader or hearer the precise ideas which are intended to be expressed. Meaning, sense or signification if perspicuous, when it is clearly and easily comprehended.

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin perspicuus transparent, perspicuous, from perspicere Date: 1586 plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation <a perspicuous argument> Synonyms: see clear • perspicuity noun • perspicuously adverb • perspicuousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 easily understood; clearly expressed. 2 (of a person) expressing things clearly. Derivatives: perspicuity n. perspicuously adv. perspicuousness n. Etymology: ME, = transparent f. L perspicuus (as PERSPECTIVE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Perspicuous Per*spic"u*ous, a. [L. perspicuus, from perspicere to look through. See Perspective.] 1. Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque. [Obs.] --Peacham. 2. Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. ``The purpose is perspicuous.'' --Shak. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Clear, lucid, plain, transparent, intelligible, distinct, explicit, unequivocal, obvious.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, Ciceronian, acute, apparent, apperceptive, appercipient, argute, astute, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, cogent, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, direct, discernible, discerning, distinct, easy, elegant, evident, explicit, express, farseeing, farsighted, finished, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted, forethoughtful, graceful, gracile, incisive, indisputable, indubitable, limpid, longheaded, longsighted, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, manifest, natural, neat, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, pellucid, penetrating, perceivable, perceptible, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, plain, plain as day, polished, provident, pure, refined, restrained, round, sagacious, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, simple, straightforward, tangible, tasteful, terse, to be seen, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trenchant, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unconfused, understanding, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, visible, well-defined