lucid

comparative lucider · comparative more lucid · superlative lucidest · superlative most lucid

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.

   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)

   Synonyms: clear

2. Mentally rational; sane.

   Synonyms: coherent, sane

3. Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.

   Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]

   1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems

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   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.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 57

   Synonyms: brilliant, light, glowing, clear

plural lucids

1. A lucid dream.

   The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]

   1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness, page 163

plural Lucids

1. A surname from Irish.