Word of the day limpid

Definition

1

a : marked by transparency : pellucidb : clear and simple in style

2

: absolutely serene and untroubled

Examples

From where we stood we could see the glimmer of coins settled at the bottom of the limpidfountain.

Did you know

"He could converse—and converse easily, naturally, with idiom and parlance and a certain nonchalance—on all sorts of subjects: Tony Blair's earnest righteousness, Timberland boots, thelimpid prose of Bruce Chatwin." — Wendell Steavenson, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2015.

Since the early 1600s, limpid has been used in English to describe things that have the soft clearness of pure water. The aquatic connection is not incidental; language scholars believe thatlimpid probably traces to lympha, a Latin word meaning "water." That same Latin root is also the source of the word lymph, the English name for the pale liquid that helps maintain the body's fluid balance and that removes bacteria from tissues.