lucid

See also: Lucid and lúcid

English

Etymology

Latin lucidus, from lux (“light”) + -idus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -uːsɪd

Adjective

lucid (comparative lucider or more lucid, superlative lucidest or most lucid)

clear; easily understood
- 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎:
  [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
mentally rational; sane
bright, luminous, translucent or transparent
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 57:
  The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.

Synonyms

(easily understood): clear, perspicuous, straightforward; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
(mentally rational): coherent, sane
(bright): brilliant, light
(luminous): glowing, radiant; See also Thesaurus:shining
(transparent): clear, pellucid, see-through, transparent; See also Thesaurus:transparent or Thesaurus:translucent

Derived terms

lucid dream
lucidity (noun)
lucidly (adverb)

Related terms

elucidate

Translations

clear; easily understood

Bulgarian: ясен (bg) (jasen), разбираем (bg) (razbiraem)
Catalan: lúcid (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 清楚 (zh) (qīngchǔ), 易懂 (zh) (yìdǒng), 清晰 (zh) (qīngxī)
Dutch: lucide (nl)
Finnish: selvä (fi), selkeä (fi)
French: clair (fr) m, claire (fr) f
German: klar (de), übersichtlich (de), verständlich (de), einleuchtend (de), luzid (de), deutlich (de)
Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs)
Irish: glé
Latin: lūcidus
Macedonian: јасен m (jasen), луциден m (luciden)
Maori: mārama, ariroa
Plautdietsch: kloa
Polish: jasny (pl), klarowny (pl), przejrzysty (pl) m
Portuguese: lúcido (pt)
Russian: я́сный (ru) (jásnyj), поня́тный (ru) (ponjátnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: razumljiv (sh) m
Spanish: lúcido (es)
Turkish: açık seçik (tr) n (colloquial)
Ukrainian: ясний (uk) m (jasnyj), зрозумілий m (zrozumilyj)

mentally rational; sane

Catalan: lúcid (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 清楚 (zh) (qīngchǔ), 清明 (zh) (qīngmíng)
Finnish: selväpäinen (fi), selkeä-älyinen
French: lucide (fr) m or f
German: rational (de), verständig (de), klar (de), brilliant (de), bei Verstand m
Macedonian: разумен m (razumen), рациона́лен m (racionálen)
Portuguese: lúcido (pt)
Russian: разу́мный (ru) (razúmnyj), рациона́льный (ru) (racionálʹnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: razuman (sh) m
Spanish: lúcido (es)
Ukrainian: розумний m (rozumnyj), раціональний m (racionalʹnyj), з ясним розумом (z jasnym rozumom)

bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

Bulgarian: светъл (bg) (svetǎl), блестящ (bg) (blestjašt)
Catalan: lúcid (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 清澈 (zh) (qīngchè), 透明 (zh) (tòumíng)
Finnish: selkeä (fi), kirkas (fi), läpikuultava (fi), läpinäkyvä (fi)
German: hell (de), klar (de), leuchtend (de), transparent (de), transluzent, licht (de), glänzend (de)
Ido: lumoza (io)
Macedonian: светол m (svetol), бистар m (bistar), ведар m (vedar)
Portuguese: lúcido (pt)
Russian: све́тлый (ru) (svétlyj), я́сный (ru) (jásnyj)
Spanish: lucido (es), brillante (es)
Ukrainian: світлий (uk) m (svitlyj), ясний (uk) m (jasnyj)

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Translations to be checked

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} helder (nl), ^{(please verify)} duidelijk (nl), ^{(please verify)} transparant (nl)
French: ^{(please verify)} lucide (fr)
German: ^{(please verify)} einleuchtend (de) (1), ^{(please verify)} klar (de) (1, 2), ^{(please verify)} bei Verstand (2), ^{(please verify)} leuchtend (de) (3)
Ido: ^{(please verify)} lucida (io)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} lucido (it)

Noun

lucid (plural lucids)

A lucid dream.
- 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)
  The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings […]

Anagrams

Ludic, dulic, ludic

Romanian

Etymology

From French lucide.

Adjective

lucid m or n (feminine singular lucidă, masculine plural lucizi, feminine and neuter plural lucide)

lucid, clear-sighted

Declension

Declension of lucid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	lucid		lucidă	lucizi	lucide
nominative/ accusative	definite	lucidul		lucida	lucizii	lucidele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	lucid		lucide	lucizi	lucide
genitive/ dative	definite	lucidului		lucidei	lucizilor	lucidelor

Related terms

luciditate

Spanish

Verb

lucid

second-person plural imperative of lucir