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• s  transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  a pellucid brook
• s  (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
  pellucid prose

• But he was pellucid at that momentindeed, he was firm, formidable and just about gleeful throughout the speechand the crowd went wild.
• His legal prose reflects the cadences of his life: measured, sedate and pellucid.
• It is also hard not to admire the sheer, pellucid quality of her intelligence.

• crystalline
• crystal clear
• limpid
• lucid
• transparent
• luculent
• perspicuous

News & Articles

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• It Takes a Barkeep
  When play is in the pellucid autumn air, the perfidies of bankers, and of the politicians who enable them, seem far, far away.
  Sept. 19, 2013 - Artvoice

Quotes

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• Joe Klein in New York Times
  Beinart "writes clearly and concisely, with a pellucid intelligence," our reviewer, Joe Klein, said.
• Dean Koontz in New York Times
  Dean Koontz said: "I am giving two-book sets of 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900,' by Andrew Roberts, and 'Lone Survivor,' by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. In vigorous, pellucid prose, Roberts writes history with...