crystal clearer

Adjective

crystal clear (comparative more crystal clear or (rare) crystal clearer, superlative most crystal clear or (rare) crystal clearest)

1. (idiomatic, simile) Without ambiguity or doubt; completely understood.
   • Reread through the manual until the instructions are crystal clear in your head.

   Synonyms:

   clear as crystal

2. (idiomatic, simile) Visually clear, a sharp image, of high acuity.
   • The picture on this TV is crystal clear – you can see every grain of sand!

   Synonyms:

   clear as crystal

3. (idiomatic, simile) Very translucent or transparent.
   • On the lowest level are broad meadow lands, through which wanders a stream of the most crystal clear water imaginable.1893, Charles F[orbes] Warner, editor, Picturesque Berkshire, part I (North), Northampton, Mass.: Picturesque Publishing Company; Springfield, Mass.: The W. F. Adams Company, page 84

   Synonyms:

   clear as crystal

4. (idiomatic, simile) Having no clouds.
   • Whence it comes that even in the crystal clearest weather Madeira’s sunshine spectrum is inordinately full of water-vapour stopped lines, the sun’s direct rays, though to general observation luminous enough, are signally deprived of their proper scorching heat, and the temperature range of the...1882 May 1, C[harles] Piazzi Smyth, Madeira Meteorologic: Being a Paper on the Above Subject Read Before the Royal Society, Edinburgh, on 1st of May 1882, Edinburgh: David Douglas, pages 31–32

   Synonyms:

   clear as crystal

5. (idiomatic, simile) Aurally clear.
   • There is still space available for the STARFIRE BAND performance featuring the crystal clearest, cleanest Pittsburgh Born and Bred Alto Vocals of the sensational Miss Judi Figel in our Summer Street Dance and Al Fresco Dining (inside if rain) series Music & Dancing 7-11 P.M1999 July 30, “D’Imperio’s”, in Weekend Mag (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Pittsburgh, Pa., page 33

   Synonyms:

   clear as crystal