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perspicuously

perspicuously adverb: with clarity and lucidity.

Adverb

perspicuously (comparative more perspicuously, superlative most perspicuously)

  1. With clarity and lucidity.
    • Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one.1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing

Forms of perspicuously

comparativemore perspicuously
superlativemost perspicuously

Origin of perspicuously

From perspicuous + -ly.

Questions about perspicuously

What does perspicuously mean?
Perspicuously means with clarity and lucidity.
What part of speech is perspicuously?
Perspicuously is an adverb.

Words near perspicuously in the dictionary

  1. perspicil
  2. perspicils
  3. perspicuities
  4. perspicuity
  5. perspicuous
  6. perspicuously
  7. perspicuousness
  8. perspirability
  9. perspirable
  10. perspirant
  11. perspirants

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