adjective
- Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid
- So thin as to transmit light.
- usage: "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
- synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby
- Free of deceit.
- synonyms: guileless
- Easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety. )
- usage: "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie"
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