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Pellucid vs Placid - What's the difference?

pellucid | placid |

As adjectives the difference between pellucid and placid

is that pellucid is allowing the passage of light; transparent while placid is serene; calm.

pellucid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
  • * 1857 , , The Coral Island , ch. 16:
    • . . . and the bright seaweeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.
  • Easily understood; clear.
  • * 1999 , , Preface:
    • If I treat that grammar as pellucid , then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.

    Synonyms

    * (allowing passage of light) clear, limpid, lucid, translucent * (easily understood) clear, crystal clear, lucid, translucent

    Related terms

    * elucidate * lucid * pellucidity

    placid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
    • a placid disposition
    a placid lake
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    • Derived terms

    * placidness * placidity