translucid

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adjective

Translucent.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivetranslucid (comparative more translucid, superlative most translucid)

comparative more translucid · superlative most translucid

  1. Translucent.

    The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red

    1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
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    This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

    1844, Emerson, The Poet

    Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.

    2013, Alice Fabre, Metal Language

Origin

  1. Latintranslucidus
  2. Englishtranslucid

From Latin translucidus, from trans (“across, through”) + lucidus (“lucid”). Compare French translucide. See translucent.

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Translations

Spanish translúcido
  • translúcidotranslucent

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “translucid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/translucid.

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