Meanings
comparative more luculent · superlative most luculent
- archaicShining, brilliant.
- obsoleteOf language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear.
Cleombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves[…].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 4, member 1
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinlūculentus
- Englishluculent
From Latin lūculentus, from lūx (“light”).
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