crystal clear
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely clear and easy to understand: Used to describe language, instructions, or explanations that are perfectly understandable, with no ambiguity.
- Perfectly transparent: Used to describe a substance, like water or glass, that is so clear it allows light to pass through without distortion, enabling perfect visibility.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Language/Meaning):
- Adjective (Physical Transparency):
Advanced Usage
- "to make something crystal clear": To explain something in a way that leaves absolutely no room for misunderstanding or doubt.
- "as crystal clear as": Used in similes to emphasize extreme clarity.
Variants and Related Words
- Clear (adj): The base adjective, meaning easy to perceive or understand, or free from cloudiness.
- Lucid (adj): (of language or thought) clearly expressed and easy to understand.
- Pellucid (adj): (formal) translucently clear; (of language) easy to understand.
- Limpid (adj): (of a liquid) completely clear and transparent; (of writing or music) clear and accessible.
- Perspicuous (adj): (formal, of an explanation or account) clearly expressed and easily understood.
Synonyms
- Transparent: (for physical objects) allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen; (for language or motives) easy to perceive or detect.
- Understandable: Able to be understood.
- Unambiguous: Not open to more than one interpretation.
Related Phrases
- Crystal-clear (hyphenated form): Often used attributively (before a noun). This is a common variant spelling of the phrase.
Related Idioms
- (As) clear as crystal: An idiom with the same meaning as "crystal clear," emphasizing perfect clarity or transparency.
- (As) clear as day: Very easy to see or understand. (Note: This idiom is related but not a direct variant of the target phrase).
Adjective
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- writes in a limpid style
- lucid directions
- a luculent oration- Robert Burton
- pellucid prose
- a crystal clear explanation
- a perspicuous argument
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- 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