Lucid vs Calm - What's the difference?
lucid | calm |
clear; easily understood
* '>citation
mentally rational; sane
bright, luminous, translucent or transparent
A lucid dream.
* 1986 , Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)
(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with little waves on the surface.
Without wind or storm.
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
* Bible, Mark iv. 39
To make calm.
* Dryden
To become calm.
As adjectives the difference between lucid and calm
is that lucid is clear; easily understood while calm is (of a person) peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.As nouns the difference between lucid and calm
is that lucid is a lucid dream while calm is (in a person) the state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.As a verb calm is
to make calm.lucid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* clear * coherent * fluent * pellucid * perspicuous * straightforward * see-through * transparentDerived terms
* lucid dream * lucidity (noun) * lucidly (adverb)Noun
(en noun)- The day before nightmare-initiated lucids , subjects reported more depressed feelings
Anagrams
* ----calm
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Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* (free from anger and anxiety) stressed, nervous, anxious * (free of noise and disturbance) disturbed * (without wind or storm) windy, stormyDerived terms
* calm as a millpond * ice-calmNoun
(en noun)- The wind ceased, and there was a great calm .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ice-calmVerb
(en verb)- to calm a crying baby
- to calm the passions
- to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus