lucid

See also: lúcid

English

Etymology

Latin lucidus, from lux (“light”) + -idus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
  • Rhymes: -uːsɪd

Adjective

lucid (comparative lucider or more lucid, superlative lucidest or most lucid)

  1. clear; easily understood
    • 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)‎:
      [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
  2. mentally rational; sane
  3. bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

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Noun

lucid (plural lucids)

  1. A lucid dream.
    • 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)
      The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings […]

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Spanish

Verb

lucid

  1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of lucir.
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