Lucid Meaning
/ˈl(j)uːsɪd/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjClear; easily understood.
adjMentally rational; sane.
Sentence Examples
Mary frequently has lucid dreams.
I have lucid dreams.
Yanni was lucid and aware of what he was doing.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After drinking coffee, the tired student became ____ and could think clearly.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He provided a very ____ and easy-to-understand explanation of the complex scientific theory.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der. Proto-Italic *loukēō Latin lūceō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin lūcidus English lucid Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic."
— 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
"The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage."
— 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 57:
"Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]"
— 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
"The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]"
— 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness, page 163:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After drinking coffee, the tired student became ____ and could think clearly.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He provided a very ____ and easy-to-understand explanation of the complex scientific theory.