lucid

See also: Lucid and lúcid

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
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  • 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):
      [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.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 57:
      The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.

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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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lucide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luˈt͡ʃid/

Adjective

lucid m or n (feminine singular lucidă, masculine plural lucizi, feminine and neuter plural lucide)

  1. lucid, clear-sighted

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Spanish

Verb

lucid

  1. second-person plural imperative of lucir
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