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Adjectives
1. (adj.) crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent;
  - transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
  - “the cold crystalline water of melted snow”; “crystal clear skies”; “could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool”; “lucid air”; “a pellucid brook”; “transparent crystal”;

2. (adj.) cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous;
  - so thin as to transmit light;
  - “a hat with a diaphanous veil”; “filmy wings of a moth”; “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”; “gossamer cobwebs”; “sheer silk stockings”; “transparent chiffon”; “vaporous silks”;

3. (adj.) guileless, transparent;
  - free of deceit;

4. (adj.) transparent;
  - easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety);
  - “a transparent explanation”; “a transparent lie”;

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