lucid
adjectifnomattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈl(j)uːsɪd//
Clear; easily understood.
adjectif
- 1
Clear; easily understood.
[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
- 2
Mentally rational; sane.
- 3
Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
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.
Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *lukéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *l(o)ukēō? Latin lūceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin lūcidus English lucid Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
nom
- 1
A lucid dream.
The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]
Formes
- pluriel
- lucids
- comparatif
- lucider, more lucid
- superlatif
- lucidest, most lucid