Meanings
comparative more perspicuously · superlative most perspicuously
- With clarity and lucidity.
Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one.
1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin a clear and lucid manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishperspicuous
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishperspicuously
From perspicuous + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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