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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
limpid is an adjective meaning "clear and bright". It carries 3 recorded senses.
transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
“the cold crystalline water of melted snow”
“crystal clear skies”
“could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool”
“lucid air”
“a pellucid brook”
“transparent crystal”
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
“writes in a limpid style”
“lucid directions”
“a luculent oration”
“pellucid prose”
“a crystal clear explanation”
“a perspicuous argument”
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for limpid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.