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Crystal clear   /krˈɪstəl klɪr/   Listen
Crystal clear

adjective
1.
Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity.  Synonyms: crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent.  "Crystal clear skies" , "Could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool" , "Lucid air" , "A pellucid brook" , "Transparent crystal"
2.
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable.  Synonyms: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous.  "Lucid directions" , "A luculent oration" , "Pellucid prose" , "A crystal clear explanation" , "A perspicuous argument"






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"Crystal clear" Quotes from Famous Books



... a woman's passionate pain, every man must stand back, baffled and powerless to help. Thayer had supposed he understood Beatrix Lorimer as no other man had ever understood her. To his eyes, her character seemed crystal clear; yet now, in her supreme crisis, the crystal grew cloudy before his eyes. For long hours, she had gone into the deep places of her life, had stirred up from its very source the spring of her being, and the ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray

... come to wide vistas of country, with pine-clad hills and slopes and beautiful gleaming lakes. And twice from the top of an ascent they caught the outlines of a bold mountain-range. A delicious air blew down from these mountains, cool, crystal clear, and spiced with the balsamic smell of hemlocks and firs and ...
— Eyebright - A Story • Susan Coolidge

... crystal clear was the gaze with which he met her own, that she was aware of an immediate sense, a vaguely alarming sense, that her confidence must be made with concessions not only to what he had told her—and told her so exquisitely as to indicate his knowledge of ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... in Paradise, Uttered by one who, bravely dying here, In the true faith was living in that sphere Where the celestial cross of sacrifice Spread its protecting arms athwart the skies; And set thereon, like jewels crystal clear, The souls magnanimous, that knew not fear, Flashed their effulgence on his dazzled eyes. Ah me! how dark the discipline of pain, Were not the suffering followed by the sense Of infinite rest and infinite release! This is our consolation; and again A great soul cries to us in our ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... the glass of Nantz, without the coffee, "made racy with the third part of the least drop of creme de citron, crystal clear." ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers



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