adjective

• 1 formal (of an account or representation) clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid.

  ‘it provides simpler and more perspicuous explanations than its rivals’

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  • ‘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.’

  Synonyms

  clear, transparent, glassy, glasslike, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy

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  1. 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.’
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     • ‘He is now, though not wholly perspicuous, less enigmatic than he was at the beginning.’