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lucid adjective. L16.
[French lucide or Italian lucido from Latin lucidus, from lucere shine, be evident, from luc-, lux light: see -ID1.]
Bright, luminous, resplendent (now poet.); Entomology & Botany smooth and shining; Astronomy (of a star) visible to the naked eye. L16.
Translucent, clear. E17.
C. Aiken In the cold blue lucid dusk before the sunrise, One yellow star sings.
[translating medieval Latin (pl.) lucida intervalla.] Designating or pertaining to an interval of sanity between periods of insanity or dementia, or (formerly) a temporary remission in a disease. Also transf., designating an interval of calm or normality. E17.
Marked by clearness of reasoning or expression; easily understood. L18.
L. MacNeice Housman..is usually a lucid poet but the poem below is one of his few obscure ones. N. Freeling The notebooks are tangled but..perfectly lucid.
Of a person: rational; sane. M19.
J. Higgins 'How's Malone?'..'Is he lucid?' 'Some of the time.'
Psychology. Of a dream: experienced with the dreamer feeling awake, aware of dreaming, and able to control events consciously. M20.
lucidly adverb E18.
lucidness noun M17.