transparently

1. 1.

   so as to be easily understood or seen through

   “his transparently lucid prose”

   “his transparently deceitful behavior”
2. 2.

   so as to allow the passage of light

   “the red brilliance of the claret shines transparently in our glasses”

Questions about transparently

What does transparently mean?

transparently means "so as to be easily understood or seen through". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transparently?

transparently has 4 syllables: tran-spar-ent-ly. The stress falls on "spar". In IPA it is /tɹænˈspɛɹəntli/.

Is transparently a common word?

transparently is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.