perspicuous adj : (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear]

English

Etymology

From perspicuus, in turn from perspicio.

Adjective

1. Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 4,

     I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous;

2. Used in logic to describe a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus, where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.

Related terms

• perspicuity
• perspicuously
• perspicuousness
• perspicacious
• perspicaciously
• perspicacity
• perspective

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