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Definition of Limpid
1. Adjective. Clear and bright. "Limpid blue eyes"
2. Adjective. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. "Transparent crystal"
Similar to: Clear
Derivative terms: Limpidity, Pellucidity, Pellucidness, Transparence, Transparence, Transparency, Transparentness
3. Adjective. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable. "A perspicuous argument"
Category relationships: Language, Linguistic Communication
Similar to: Clear
Derivative terms: Limpidity, Lucidity, Pellucidity, Perspicuity, Perspicuousness
Definition of Limpid
1. a. Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.
Definition of Limpid
1. Adjective. Clear, transparent or bright. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Limpid
1. transparent [adj] : LIMPIDLY [adv] - See also: transparent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limpid
Literary usage of Limpid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"A limpid torrent goes whistling down the glen, and toward the foot of it winds
through a narrow cleft between lofty precipices and hurls itself over a ..."
2. The American Journal of Science, & C (1818)
"limpid Quartz.—West Canada Creek, a northern branch of >the Mohawk^'affords, in
its sands, small crystals of quartz, limpid, and terminated at both ends by ..."
3. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... of bitter brine erewhile, Should to the bosom of the deep recoil Robb'd of
its salt, and from the cloud distil Sweet as the waters of the limpid rill? ..."
4. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1902)
"... the purple mantles, the faithful polychromy of the oriental carpets, the limpid
colouring of the eyes—all this photography will never be able to render. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... Built tor convenience, and the me of life; Around n fallows, mends, and pastures
feir, A little garden, and a limpid brook, By nature's own contrivance ..."
6. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1856)
"Fore wings blackish purple with cinereous tips. Hind wings nearly limpid.
Length of th body 4J lines; of the wings 8 lines. ..."
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