lucid
/ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
lucid adjective: clear; easily understood.
Adjective
lucid (comparative lucider or more lucid, superlative lucidest or most lucid)
- 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.2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The...
- Synonyms:
- clear
- 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.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 57
- Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
Noun
lucid (plural lucids)
- A lucid dream.
- The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness, page 163
Proper noun capitalized: Lucid
Lucid (plural Lucids)
- A surname from Irish.
lucid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
lucid in Hindi
- lucid, perspicuous
- विशद viśad
lucid in Tamil
- தெளிவான, நன்கு விளங்குகின்ற, விளங்குகிற, குழப்பமற்ற, தெளிவு
lucid in Urdu
- بین, مربوط, روشن, صاف, سلیس, اجاگر
lucid in Bengali
- স্পষ্ট, স্বচ্ছ, সহজবোধ্য, নির্মল
More languagesFewer languages
- lucid in Malayalam
- ഉജ്ജ്വലമായ, സുബോധമുളള, തെളിഞ്ഞ
- lucid in Kannada
- ಹೊಳೆಯುವ, ಆಚೆಕಾಣಿಸುವ, ತಿಳಿಯಾದ, ತಿಳಿಯುವ
Examples of lucid in a sentence
- The patient was more lucid in her nonmanic phase.
- A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog.
- But suddenly he has a lucid interval . . . senses exactly what is going on.
Synonyms of lucid
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Forms of lucid
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | lucider |
| comparative | more lucid |
| superlative | lucidest |
| superlative | most lucid |
| Noun | |
| plural | lucids |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Lucids |
Origin of lucid
Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
Perhaps a variant of Lucey.
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Questions about lucid
- What does lucid mean?
- Lucid means clear; easily understood.
- What is lucid in Hindi?
- Lucid in Hindi is विशद (viśad). See Lucid meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lucid?
- Lucid can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lucid?
- Lucid is pronounced /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucid (page history and authors); Lucid (page history and authors); विशद (Hindi) (page history and authors); lucid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lucid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Lucid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lucid (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lucid (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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