English synonyms: crystal clear, lucid, limpid, pellucid, crystalline, transparent Synonyms: . Clear, transparent, lucid, pellucid, (into pieces), easily shivered. Pellucid is formed from Latin per ('through') plus lucidusa word meaning 'lucid, clear' that ultimately derives from the verb lucre, meaning 'to shine.' Lucre has many shining relatives in English. The word takes its roots from the Latin pellucidus, meaning 'translucent.'Pellucidius, in turn, is derived from the word pellucere, which describes the ability of light to shine through objects (per means 'through' and lucere means 'to shine').
Other antonyms: indecipherable, gray, insensible, dense, glazed, subtle, ambiguous, dim, filmy, imperceptible, unreadable, illegible, unknowable, smoky, indiscernible, unapparent, hazy, nonobvious, imprecise, impalpable, inappreciable, sketchy, unclouded, muddy, vague, slippery, tinted, indeterminate, dubious, colored, turbid, noncommital, undecipherable. Transmitting light able to be seen through with clarity. Pellucid first appeared in English near the beginning of the seventeenth century.