lucid
See also: lúcid
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Latin lucidus, from lux (“light”) + -idus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lucid (comparative lucider or more lucid, superlative lucidest or most lucid)
- clear; easily understood
- 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1]:
- [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
- mentally rational; sane
- bright, luminous, translucent or transparent
SynonymsEdit
- (easily understood): clear, perspicuous, straightforward; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
- (mentally rational): coherent, sane
- (bright): brilliant, light
- (luminous): glowing, radiant; See also Thesaurus:shining
- (transparent): clear, pellucid, see-through, transparent; See also Thesaurus:transparent or Thesaurus:translucent
Derived termsEdit
- lucid dream
- lucidity (noun)
- lucidly (adverb)
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
clear; easily understood
mentally rational; sane
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bright, luminous, translucent or transparent
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NounEdit
lucid (plural lucids)
- A lucid dream.
- 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)
- The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings […]
- 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)