Definition of perspicuous in English:
perspicuous
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adjective
1 formal (of an account or representation) clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid.
‘it provides simpler and more perspicuous explanations than its rivals’- ‘What the philosophers in question owe us is a perspicuous explanation of how there can be a class of entities which do not behave like particulars.’
- ‘They appreciated the high seriousness and the perspicuous aspects of his intelligence, both evident in his books.’
- ‘Montague suggested a perspicuous way to capture the principle of compositionality formally.’
- ‘This is a simple but perspicuous consequence of the Cartesian doctrine of sensible qualities and its conception of matter.’
- ‘Unfortunately, the import of these qualifications has been less than perspicuous.’
clear, transparent, glassy, glasslike, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudyView synonyms- 1.1(of a person) able to give an account or express an idea clearly.‘His was a perfectly balanced personality - tolerant, truthful, perspicuous and magnanimous.’
- ‘He is now, though not wholly perspicuous, less enigmatic than he was at the beginning.’
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Origin
Late 15th century (in the sense ‘transparent’): from Latin perspicuus ‘transparent, clear’ (from the verb perspicere ‘look at closely’) + -ous.
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