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say it: LOO-suhd
lucid is an adjective meaning "(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable". It carries 4 recorded senses.
(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”
language
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”
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 lucid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.