pellucid (adj)
Transparent or translucent, extremely clear.
"Any writer who has read even a little will know what is meant by word intelligible. It is not sufficient that there be a meaning that may be hammered out of the sentence, but that the language should be so pellucid that the meaning should be rendered without an effort of the reader -- and not only some proposition of meaning, but the very sense, no more and no less, which the writer has intended to put into his words."
--Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography
The pellucid water of my aquarium... isn't so pellucid at the moment. How can a few tiny zebra fish and some miniscule neon tetras create such murk? Time to change the filter. And maybe feed them less. If I was a fish, I wouldn't want to live in dirty water. After all.... A fish can't take a bath. That's my ecological slogan. Put it on a button or a tee shirt, people of the Gulf.
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Didn't know that. But it's pellucid to me now? The meaning of that word, that is.
ReplyDelete"Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there
ReplyDeleteIn happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams."
--William Wordsworth
Now I have to figure out what "pupureal" means.