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translucid

translucid adjective: translucent.

Adjective

translucid (comparative more translucid, superlative most translucid)

  1. Translucent.
    • The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...
    • This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.1844, Emerson, The Poet

Forms of translucid

comparativemore translucid
superlativemost translucid

Origin of translucid

From Latin translucidus, from trans (“across, through”) + lucidus (“lucid”). Compare French translucide. See translucent.

Questions about translucid

What does translucid mean?
Translucid means translucent.
What part of speech is translucid?
Translucid is an adjective.

Words near translucid in the dictionary

  1. translucency
  2. translucent
  3. translucently
  4. translucents
  5. transluces
  6. translucid
  7. translucidity
  8. translucing
  9. translumbar
  10. translumenal
  11. translumenally

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