lucid

See also: lúcid

Contents

English

Etymology

Latin lucidus, from lux (“light”) + -idus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
• Rhymes: -uːsɪd

Adjective

lucid (comparative lucider or more lucid, superlative lucidest or most lucid)

1. 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.

2. mentally rational; sane
3. bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

Synonyms

• (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 terms

• lucid dream
• lucidity (noun)
• lucidly (adverb)

Related terms

• elucidate

Translations

clear; easily understood

• Catalan: lúcid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清楚 (zh) (qīngchǔ), 易懂 (zh) (yìdǒng), 清晰 (zh) (qīngxī)

• Finnish: selvä (fi), selkeä (fi)
• French: clair (fr) m, claire (fr) f
• German: klar (de), übersichtlich (de), verständlich (de), einleuchtend (de), luzid (de), deutlich (de)
• Macedonian: јасен m (jásen), луциден m (lúciden)

• Maori: mārama, ariroa
• Polish: jasny (pl), klarowny (pl), przejrzysty (pl) m
• Portuguese: lúcido (pt)
• Russian: я́сный (ru) (jásnyj), поня́тный (ru) (ponjátnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: razumljiv (sh) m
• Spanish: lúcido

mentally rational; sane

• Catalan: lúcid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清楚 (zh) (qīngchǔ), 清明 (zh) (qīngmíng)

• Finnish: selväpäinen (fi), selkeä-älyinen
• French: lucide (fr) m, f
• German: rational (de), verständig (de), klar (de), brilliant (de), bei Verstand m

• Macedonian: разумен m (rázumen), рационален m (racionálen)
• Portuguese: lúcido (pt)
• Russian: разу́мный (ru) (razúmnyj), рациона́льный (ru) (racionálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: razuman (sh) m
• Spanish: lúcido

bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

• Catalan: lúcid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清澈 (zh) (qīngchè), 透明 (zh) (tòumíng)

• Finnish: selkeä (fi), kirkas (fi), läpikuultava (fi), läpinäkyvä (fi)
• German: hell (de), klar (de), leuchtend (de), transparent (de), transluzent, licht (de), glänzend (de)

• Ido: lumoza (io)
• Macedonian: светол m (svétol), бистар m (bístar), ведар m (védar)
• Portuguese: lúcido (pt)
• Russian: све́тлый (ru) (svétlyj), я́сный (ru) (jásnyj)
• Spanish: lucido (es), brillante (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: helder, duidelijk, transparant
• French: lucide
• German: einleuchtend (1), klar (1,2), bei Verstand (2), leuchtend (3)

• Ido: lucida
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} lucido (it)

Noun

lucid (plural lucids)

1. 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 […]

Anagrams

• Ludic, dulic, ludic

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Spanish

Verb

lucid

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of lucir.