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Lucid vs Pure - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between lucid and pure

is that lucid is clear; easily understood while pure is free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

As a noun lucid

is a lucid dream.

As an adverb pure is

to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

lucid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • clear; easily understood
  • * '>citation
  • mentally rational; sane
  • bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

    • Synonyms

    * clear * coherent * fluent * pellucid * perspicuous * straightforward * see-through * transparent

    Derived terms

    * lucid dream * lucidity (noun) * lucidly (adverb)

    Related terms

    * elucidate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lucid dream.
  • * 1986 , Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness (page 163)
    • The day before nightmare-initiated lucids , subjects reported more depressed feelings

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    pure

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
  • * (1800-1859)
    • Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
  • (senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.
  • * (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
    • A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
  • Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
  • * Bible, v. 22
    • Keep thyself pure .
  • (label) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
  • (label) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
  • (label) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

    • Synonyms

    * perfect * innocent * See also

    Antonyms

    * impure, contaminated * (done for its own sake) applied

    Derived terms

    * pure finder * as pure as the driven snow

    Related terms

    * purification * purify * purity * puritan * puritanism * purist * purism

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
    • You’re pure busy.

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