Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lucid manner: with brightness; clearly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a lucid manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a clear and easily understood way, in a lucid manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a clear and lucid manner

Etymologies

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lucid +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • There are many foreigners living in Mexico who should still be in Des Moines but if you disagree with that tell me lucidly and conventionally why you disagree rather than build sand castles and try to explain why your castles will survive the next tide.

    Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009

  • There are many foreigners living in Mexico who should still be in Des Moines but if you disagree with that tell me lucidly and conventionally why you disagree rather than build sand castles and try to explain why your castles will survive the next tide.

    Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009

  • This production, which has been lucidly staged by William Hayes, the company's artistic director, is a good example of Palm Beach Dramaworks' brainy approach.

    To Believe, or Not to Believe? Terry Teachout 2011

  • Malken can get poetically drunk, and usually does, on one cocktail; Aaron Hancock is an expert wine-bibber; and Terrence McFane, knowing little of one drink from another, and caring less, can put ninety-nine men out of a hundred under the table and go right on lucidly expounding epicurean anarchy.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • The documentary Finding Joe, directed by Patrick Takaya Solomon, is a heart warming and inspired retelling of Joseph Campbell's iconic Hero's Journey, one that lucidly walks us through perhaps the archetype of archetypes, the diagram for self-realization and psychological illumination known as the monomyth.

    Jason Silva: Finding Joe Documentary Reminds Us of Our Hero's Journey Jason Silva 2011

  • There are many foreigners living in Mexico who should still be in Des Moines but if you disagree with that tell me lucidly and conventionally why you disagree rather than build sand castles and try to explain why your castles will survive the next tide.

    Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009

  • Either side of any issue can be lucidly attacked and/or vigorously defended and vice versa, and/or versa vice ah.

    Matthew Yglesias » Olivier Blanchard on the Case for Higher Inflation 2010

  • If all the clowns who excoriate Keynes just because some ignorant dogmatist told them to, would actually go read the General Theory (which is exceptionally lucidly written), perhaps they might begin to understand why.

    Matthew Yglesias » “Taking Money From One Place and Giving it To Another Place” 2010

  • There are many foreigners living in Mexico who should still be in Des Moines but if you disagree with that tell me lucidly and conventionally why you disagree rather than build sand castles and try to explain why your castles will survive the next tide.

    Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009

  • The documentary Finding Joe, directed by Patrick Takaya Solomon, is a heart warming and inspired retelling of Joseph Campbell's iconic Hero's Journey, one that lucidly walks us through perhaps the archetype of archetypes, the diagram for self-realization and psychological illumination known as the monomyth.

    Jason Silva: Finding Joe Documentary Reminds Us of Our Hero's Journey Jason Silva 2011

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