limpid

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adjective
  1. clear, transparent, or pellucid, as water, crystal, or air: We could see to the very bottom of the limpid pond.

  2. free from obscurity; lucid; clear: a limpid style; limpid prose.

  1. completely calm; without distress or worry: a limpid, emotionless existence.

Origin of limpid

1
First recorded in 1605–15, limpid is from the Latin word limpidus clear. See lymph, -id4

Other words from limpid

  • lim·pid·i·ty, lim·pid·ness, noun
  • lim·pid·ly, adverb

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How to use limpid in a sentence

  • The Susquehanna is very broad at this crossing, but it cannot compare with the Delaware for limpidness and whiteness.

    Peggy Owen at Yorktown | Lucy Foster Madison
  • This one had: she had the secret of lake waters under rock, unfathomable in limpidness.

  • This Butter of Antimony by repeated distillations acquires a considerable degree of fluidity and limpidness.

  • The limpidness of the verses, the felicity of the designs, recall special morning moods in the morning of life.

    William Blake | Irene Langridge

British Dictionary definitions for limpid

limpid

/ (ˈlɪmpɪd) /


adjective
  1. clear or transparent

  2. (esp of writings, style, etc) free from obscurity

  1. calm; peaceful

Origin of limpid

1
C17: from French limpide, from Latin limpidus clear

Derived forms of limpid

  • limpidity or limpidness, noun
  • limpidly, adverb

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