Word of the Day

Saturday, March 26, 2005

luculent

\LOO-kyuh-luhnt\ , adjective;

Clear; easily understood.

Quotes:

Yet it is always luculent, even when the concepts being expressed become somewhat sophisticated.

-- Dan Schnabel, "Goodbye Descartes", American Mathematical Monthly, November 1998

From the high ground all is clear,
interpretable, luculent: this is what this means.

-- Thomas Lux, The Cradle Place

Origin:

Luculent comes from Latin luculentus, from lux, luc-, "light."