lucid Definition
lu·cid (lo̵̅o̅′sid)
adjective
- Old Poet. bright; shining
- transparent
- designating an interval of sanity in a mental disorder
- clear to the mind; readily understood lucid instructions
- clearheaded; rational a lucid thinker
Etymology: L lucidus < lucere, to shine: see light
lucid Related Forms
lu·cid′·ity noun or lu′·cid·ness
lu′·cidly adverb
lucid Synonyms
lucid
modif.
Clear to the sight
pellucid, transparent, diaphanous; see clear 2, obvious 1.Clear to the understanding
Bright
shining, resplendent, luminous; see bright 1.
lucid Usage Examples
Preposition: that
disease: I was recently diagnosed with cancer of the lungs and the doctors have made it absolutely lucid that this disease is terminal.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
make: He prescribes panda toenail unction to be spread on the forehead before sleep to make the dreams more lucid.
Modifies a noun
- dreamer: So perhaps a lucid dreamer could signal by moving the eyes in a predetermined pattern.
- exposition: Thank you for your very lucid exposition of the position here.
- prose: Agree with comments of the literary critics that it is brilliantly written in lucid prose.
- dream: However, lucid dreams do tend to occur in periods of higher cortical arousal.
- explanation: Their lucid explanations have been most helpful to my understanding.
- interval: Hence the propounder of the Will must prove that the Will was made in a lucid interval.
Modifying Another Word
- wonderfully: Pattens's discussion of the answers to these and many other questions is wonderfully lucid and entertaining.
- remarkably: Click on the area you want to know about, and all the information is revealed - in remarkably lucid language too.
- exceptionally: There is also an exceptionally lucid psychologist who explains just how attractive terrorism can seem to a confused teenager.
- particularly: The coverage of ICMP attacks is neither particularly lucid nor particularly complete.
- extremely: An extremely lucid consideration of the Becke Line, the refractive differences between specimen and mountant, is particularly useful.
- quite: She lost her fever and slept, becoming quite lucid and reaching the crisis.
Used with adjective complement
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