lucid

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Scrabble points: 8
Words With Friends: 11
Letters: 5

Pronunciation

/ˈl(j)uːsɪd/

Definition of lucid

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

Clear; easily understood.

“[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.”

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adj

Clear; easily understood.

“[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.”
Mentally rational; sane.
Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.

“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.”
“Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]”

noun

A lucid dream.

“The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]”

name

A surname from Irish.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Italic *loukēō Latin lūceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin lūcidus English lucid Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.