Lucid vs Direct - What's the difference?
lucid | direct | Related terms |
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)
Straight, constant, without interruption.
Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
Straightforward; sincere.
* Shakespeare
Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
* John Locke
* Hallam
In the line of descent; not collateral.
(astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
Directly.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:
To manage, control, steer.
To aim (something) at (something else).
To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
* Lubbock
To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
* Shakespeare
(dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.
As adjectives the difference between lucid and direct
is that lucid is clear; easily understood while direct is straight, constant, without interruption.As a noun lucid
is a lucid dream.As an adverb direct is
directly.As a verb direct is
to manage, control, steer.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
* ----direct
English
Adjective
(er)- the most direct route between two buildings
- Be even and direct with me.
- He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
- a direct and avowed interference with elections
- a descendant in the direct line
Antonyms
* indirectDerived terms
* direct action * direct current * direct flight * direct initiative * direct object * direct quoteAdverb
(en adverb)- Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct .
Verb
(en verb)- to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army
- They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.
- He directed his question to the room in general.
- He directed me to the left-hand road.
- the next points to which I will direct your attention
- She directed them to leave immediately.
- I'll first direct my men what they shall do.
- to direct a letter