Definition of limpid in English:

limpid

adjective ˈlɪmpɪdˈlɪmpɪd

1(of a liquid) completely clear and transparent.
the limpid waters of the Caribbean
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a beautiful beryl gem of purest water, eight-faceted, well cut, clear and limpid, possessed of all good qualities and through it is strung a blue, yellow, red, white or brown thread.
- Picture the many forms of water - from swelling surf to torrential rain to spouting geyser to limpid pool to sparkling bubbles to tinkling iceblocks to healing tears.
- Their luster was superb as was their limpid green color and transparency.
- With the recent fish kill in Jagaranahalli Lake last Wednesday, the spotlight is once again on the state of the city's once limpid lakes.
- The four-meter-thick walls are as solid as ever, and swans still glide over the moat's limpid waters.
- The waters of the lake are limpid, the colour of jade, and reflect the surrounding beauty of the peaks and trees.
- His music sounds as if it is being sung to a listener on the mainland from some siren's island far off in the limpid sea.
- They would converge on the place each summer, moor their yachts in the limpid waters off Capriccioli or Cala di Volpe, and take it in turns to host parties on board or on beach.
- If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall.
- The anchor dropped through 20 ft of limpid water and we slipped over the side to swim and snorkel before lunch.
- In Weihai, a clear city certified by Chinese authorities, you can expect to enjoy the most limpid sea water along China's coast.
- We are told that the baptism took place at Killoughternane where the streams of two fountains meet and, on account of the limpid purity of the waters, he was baptised by the name of Finnlach, ‘The Child of the Limpid Fountain’.
- There was a rudimentary path leading towards a sapphire-blue limpid pool of water into which a natural spring cascaded down the plateau face.
- There was a limpid pool of emerald water rimmed with brown sand, set in a giant's jumble of rubbed granite blocks.
- For the limpid quality of the water here, the colour of the coral and variety of fish, it's the place for your final sundowner, breathtaking and unforgettable.
- Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges.
- Below nestled a shingle cove of limpid water and fearless little fish, qualities that tend to bring the boy out of the man.
Synonyms
clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy
1. 1.1 (of a person's eyes) unclouded; clear.
  the limpid grey eyes gazed trustfully at her
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ryann crouched in the cell, her eyes wet, her gaze limpid.
  Having apparently completed her dissertation, Malie rested her chin on one fist and regarded him with limpid, rather bovine eyes.
  Barth saw from his place at the doorway that she was looking up into his best friend's face with large limpid eyes and her lips parting to show her most dazzling white smile, her arms twined around his neck.
  Hugh's ears are pointed and his eyes are like these limpid pools I keep hearing so much about.
  I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and profess his honorable intentions.
  Her amber eyes reflected in the mirror were limpid, and alluring.
  Her eyes were large and limpid, but definitely not innocent.
  In Duccio's rendering, Mary's limpid eyes are reservoirs of reflection.
  Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
  Margalo is a wounded bird with huge limpid eyes, and Stuart is smitten.
  Garcia, with his classic dark looks and limpid brown eyes, knows all too well how easy it is for his female students to fall in love.
  Her eyes take in everything, limpid and deep, revealing a kind of rawness that's hard to read.
  Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
  Seen from the above, the lake resembles a pair of limpid eyes.
  Her limpid eyes were intoxicating, holding him, and imprisoning him.
  There was a twinkle in his limpid brown eyes.
  A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
  Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes.
  Holding that limpid gaze, she saw something his original owner, who'd abandoned him on a south London housing estate, clearly didn't.
  Although facing left, Paula directs her bold, limpid eyes back to center stage.
  Synonyms
  clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy
2. 1.2 (especially of writing or music) clear and accessible or melodious.
  the limpid notes of a recorder
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Choir of Westminster Cathedral responds with a limpid beauty to the direction of Martin Baker whose patient enthusiasm is very evident in the ecstatic end-product.
  On the contrary, a limpid, understated vignette can be just as strong and striking.
  A simple accompaniment serves as a baseline from which a limpid melody explodes into a dizzy display of vocal pyrotechnics.
  Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
  In brief and limpid episodes French director Alain Cavalier bares the masochism, eroticism, and purity at the heart of Therese's self-enclosed crusade.
  Each bird's voice is but four limpid notes, delivered in slow, syncopated cadence, rising to a bell-like question mark.
  As in the Debussy, the layering of texture brought chiarascuro to the music, the melody highlighted through the limpid falling thirds of the first and the pulsating chords of the second, with its emotive central interlude.
  Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch.
  His penchant for big questions, his lucid and often limpid prose, and his willingness to pose unconventional and unpopular arguments have combined to make him a must-read.
  Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music.
  With Pascal Devoyon as like-thinking partner, he gives limpid performances of music well worth an airing.
  Neale, himself famed for his literary style, described the prose as ‘lucid and limpid and always charged with vitality’.
  It is a more limpid and beautiful piece of music than you might expect from a band known for live performances that regularly culminate in unpredictable, slightly disturbing onstage violence.
  Gouffé wrote in a limpid style, comprehensible by all and exhibiting a standard of literary craftsmanship which equalled the author's skill in the kitchen.
  Note the chair placed near to the doorway and the limpid UJ on the door pillar.
  The music is limpid and languid, dripping grace and deft touches.
  Synonyms
  lucid, clear, plain, understandable, intelligible, comprehensible, perceptible, coherent, explicit, unambiguous, simple, vivid, sharp, direct, clear-cut, crystal clear, luminous, straightforward, distinct, perspicuous
  rare luculent

Derivatives

limpidity

noun lɪmˈpɪdɪtilɪmˈpɪdədi

The limpidity of intellect she enjoyed for most of her wretched life was inborn.
Example sentencesExamples
- In his estimation, the Authorized Version, more than any other European Bible, had a flowing limpidity combined with ritual overtones.
- Perhaps the most notable of these celebrations is found in ‘River Music’, a three-part sequence in which he tried to draw a connection between the limpidity to which the medium lends itself and his own poetic ideal.
- Overall, the tonal balance, flattening of forms and coolness of colouring projects a feeling of utter limpidity.
- Having arrived in England in 1938 at the age of 23 as a student with very little English, he soon mastered the language sufficiently to write prose of outstanding clarity and limpidity.

limpidly

adverb ˈlɪmpɪdliˈlɪmpɪdli

As always, the winds were limpidly beautiful, while the brass was forceful and satiny smooth.
Example sentencesExamples
- The following ‘Largo’ runs longer than most, but I'd not have it a moment less: limpidly beautiful and, yes, a bit Romantic, like a Mendelssohn andante.
- Here ends this thoughtful, limpidly written exploration of screws and screwdrivers, the passage of time, the evolution of civilizations, and human invention.
- Set by an idyllic lake in his home county of Leitrim, in the west of Ireland, it is an Irish pastoral, limpidly and lyrically recording the story of a year from one Easter at the beginning of the 1980s to the next.

limpidness

noun

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin limpidus; perhaps related to lymph.

Definition of limpid in US English:

limpid

adjectiveˈlimpidˈlɪmpɪd

1(of a liquid) free of anything that darkens; completely clear.
Example sentencesExamples
- For the limpid quality of the water here, the colour of the coral and variety of fish, it's the place for your final sundowner, breathtaking and unforgettable.
- This is a beautiful beryl gem of purest water, eight-faceted, well cut, clear and limpid, possessed of all good qualities and through it is strung a blue, yellow, red, white or brown thread.
- With the recent fish kill in Jagaranahalli Lake last Wednesday, the spotlight is once again on the state of the city's once limpid lakes.
- The four-meter-thick walls are as solid as ever, and swans still glide over the moat's limpid waters.
- Their luster was superb as was their limpid green color and transparency.
- In Weihai, a clear city certified by Chinese authorities, you can expect to enjoy the most limpid sea water along China's coast.
- We are told that the baptism took place at Killoughternane where the streams of two fountains meet and, on account of the limpid purity of the waters, he was baptised by the name of Finnlach, ‘The Child of the Limpid Fountain’.
- There was a rudimentary path leading towards a sapphire-blue limpid pool of water into which a natural spring cascaded down the plateau face.
- If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall.
- The anchor dropped through 20 ft of limpid water and we slipped over the side to swim and snorkel before lunch.
- The waters of the lake are limpid, the colour of jade, and reflect the surrounding beauty of the peaks and trees.
- Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges.
- His music sounds as if it is being sung to a listener on the mainland from some siren's island far off in the limpid sea.
- Below nestled a shingle cove of limpid water and fearless little fish, qualities that tend to bring the boy out of the man.
- They would converge on the place each summer, moor their yachts in the limpid waters off Capriccioli or Cala di Volpe, and take it in turns to host parties on board or on beach.
- There was a limpid pool of emerald water rimmed with brown sand, set in a giant's jumble of rubbed granite blocks.
- Picture the many forms of water - from swelling surf to torrential rain to spouting geyser to limpid pool to sparkling bubbles to tinkling iceblocks to healing tears.
Synonyms
clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy
1. 1.1 (of a person's eyes) unclouded; clear.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Duccio's rendering, Mary's limpid eyes are reservoirs of reflection.
  Seen from the above, the lake resembles a pair of limpid eyes.
  Ryann crouched in the cell, her eyes wet, her gaze limpid.
  Although facing left, Paula directs her bold, limpid eyes back to center stage.
  Margalo is a wounded bird with huge limpid eyes, and Stuart is smitten.
  Her eyes were large and limpid, but definitely not innocent.
  Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
  Having apparently completed her dissertation, Malie rested her chin on one fist and regarded him with limpid, rather bovine eyes.
  Barth saw from his place at the doorway that she was looking up into his best friend's face with large limpid eyes and her lips parting to show her most dazzling white smile, her arms twined around his neck.
  Holding that limpid gaze, she saw something his original owner, who'd abandoned him on a south London housing estate, clearly didn't.
  I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and profess his honorable intentions.
  Her amber eyes reflected in the mirror were limpid, and alluring.
  Garcia, with his classic dark looks and limpid brown eyes, knows all too well how easy it is for his female students to fall in love.
  Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
  Hugh's ears are pointed and his eyes are like these limpid pools I keep hearing so much about.
  Her limpid eyes were intoxicating, holding him, and imprisoning him.
  Her eyes take in everything, limpid and deep, revealing a kind of rawness that's hard to read.
  There was a twinkle in his limpid brown eyes.
  Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes.
  A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
  Synonyms
  clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy
2. 1.2 (especially of writing or music) clear and accessible or melodious.
  the limpid notes of a recorder
  Example sentencesExamples
  As in the Debussy, the layering of texture brought chiarascuro to the music, the melody highlighted through the limpid falling thirds of the first and the pulsating chords of the second, with its emotive central interlude.
  Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
  It is a more limpid and beautiful piece of music than you might expect from a band known for live performances that regularly culminate in unpredictable, slightly disturbing onstage violence.
  With Pascal Devoyon as like-thinking partner, he gives limpid performances of music well worth an airing.
  Note the chair placed near to the doorway and the limpid UJ on the door pillar.
  On the contrary, a limpid, understated vignette can be just as strong and striking.
  Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch.
  The Choir of Westminster Cathedral responds with a limpid beauty to the direction of Martin Baker whose patient enthusiasm is very evident in the ecstatic end-product.
  His penchant for big questions, his lucid and often limpid prose, and his willingness to pose unconventional and unpopular arguments have combined to make him a must-read.
  Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music.
  Gouffé wrote in a limpid style, comprehensible by all and exhibiting a standard of literary craftsmanship which equalled the author's skill in the kitchen.
  The music is limpid and languid, dripping grace and deft touches.
  A simple accompaniment serves as a baseline from which a limpid melody explodes into a dizzy display of vocal pyrotechnics.
  Each bird's voice is but four limpid notes, delivered in slow, syncopated cadence, rising to a bell-like question mark.
  In brief and limpid episodes French director Alain Cavalier bares the masochism, eroticism, and purity at the heart of Therese's self-enclosed crusade.
  Neale, himself famed for his literary style, described the prose as ‘lucid and limpid and always charged with vitality’.
  Synonyms
  lucid, clear, plain, understandable, intelligible, comprehensible, perceptible, coherent, explicit, unambiguous, simple, vivid, sharp, direct, clear-cut, crystal clear, luminous, straightforward, distinct, perspicuous

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin limpidus; perhaps related to lymph.

单词	limpid
释义	Definition of limpid in English: limpid adjective ˈlɪmpɪdˈlɪmpɪd 1(of a liquid) completely clear and transparent. the limpid waters of the Caribbean Example sentencesExamples This is a beautiful beryl gem of purest water, eight-faceted, well cut, clear and limpid, possessed of all good qualities and through it is strung a blue, yellow, red, white or brown thread. Picture the many forms of water - from swelling surf to torrential rain to spouting geyser to limpid pool to sparkling bubbles to tinkling iceblocks to healing tears. Their luster was superb as was their limpid green color and transparency. With the recent fish kill in Jagaranahalli Lake last Wednesday, the spotlight is once again on the state of the city's once limpid lakes. The four-meter-thick walls are as solid as ever, and swans still glide over the moat's limpid waters. The waters of the lake are limpid, the colour of jade, and reflect the surrounding beauty of the peaks and trees. His music sounds as if it is being sung to a listener on the mainland from some siren's island far off in the limpid sea. They would converge on the place each summer, moor their yachts in the limpid waters off Capriccioli or Cala di Volpe, and take it in turns to host parties on board or on beach. If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall. The anchor dropped through 20 ft of limpid water and we slipped over the side to swim and snorkel before lunch. In Weihai, a clear city certified by Chinese authorities, you can expect to enjoy the most limpid sea water along China's coast. We are told that the baptism took place at Killoughternane where the streams of two fountains meet and, on account of the limpid purity of the waters, he was baptised by the name of Finnlach, ‘The Child of the Limpid Fountain’. There was a rudimentary path leading towards a sapphire-blue limpid pool of water into which a natural spring cascaded down the plateau face. There was a limpid pool of emerald water rimmed with brown sand, set in a giant's jumble of rubbed granite blocks. For the limpid quality of the water here, the colour of the coral and variety of fish, it's the place for your final sundowner, breathtaking and unforgettable. Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges. Below nestled a shingle cove of limpid water and fearless little fish, qualities that tend to bring the boy out of the man. Synonyms clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy 1.1 (of a person's eyes) unclouded; clear. the limpid grey eyes gazed trustfully at her Example sentencesExamples Ryann crouched in the cell, her eyes wet, her gaze limpid. Having apparently completed her dissertation, Malie rested her chin on one fist and regarded him with limpid, rather bovine eyes. Barth saw from his place at the doorway that she was looking up into his best friend's face with large limpid eyes and her lips parting to show her most dazzling white smile, her arms twined around his neck. Hugh's ears are pointed and his eyes are like these limpid pools I keep hearing so much about. I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and profess his honorable intentions. Her amber eyes reflected in the mirror were limpid, and alluring. Her eyes were large and limpid, but definitely not innocent. In Duccio's rendering, Mary's limpid eyes are reservoirs of reflection. Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words. Margalo is a wounded bird with huge limpid eyes, and Stuart is smitten. Garcia, with his classic dark looks and limpid brown eyes, knows all too well how easy it is for his female students to fall in love. Her eyes take in everything, limpid and deep, revealing a kind of rawness that's hard to read. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser. Seen from the above, the lake resembles a pair of limpid eyes. Her limpid eyes were intoxicating, holding him, and imprisoning him. There was a twinkle in his limpid brown eyes. A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms. Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes. Holding that limpid gaze, she saw something his original owner, who'd abandoned him on a south London housing estate, clearly didn't. Although facing left, Paula directs her bold, limpid eyes back to center stage. Synonyms clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy 1.2 (especially of writing or music) clear and accessible or melodious. the limpid notes of a recorder Example sentencesExamples The Choir of Westminster Cathedral responds with a limpid beauty to the direction of Martin Baker whose patient enthusiasm is very evident in the ecstatic end-product. On the contrary, a limpid, understated vignette can be just as strong and striking. A simple accompaniment serves as a baseline from which a limpid melody explodes into a dizzy display of vocal pyrotechnics. Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity. In brief and limpid episodes French director Alain Cavalier bares the masochism, eroticism, and purity at the heart of Therese's self-enclosed crusade. Each bird's voice is but four limpid notes, delivered in slow, syncopated cadence, rising to a bell-like question mark. As in the Debussy, the layering of texture brought chiarascuro to the music, the melody highlighted through the limpid falling thirds of the first and the pulsating chords of the second, with its emotive central interlude. Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch. His penchant for big questions, his lucid and often limpid prose, and his willingness to pose unconventional and unpopular arguments have combined to make him a must-read. Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music. With Pascal Devoyon as like-thinking partner, he gives limpid performances of music well worth an airing. Neale, himself famed for his literary style, described the prose as ‘lucid and limpid and always charged with vitality’. It is a more limpid and beautiful piece of music than you might expect from a band known for live performances that regularly culminate in unpredictable, slightly disturbing onstage violence. Gouffé wrote in a limpid style, comprehensible by all and exhibiting a standard of literary craftsmanship which equalled the author's skill in the kitchen. Note the chair placed near to the doorway and the limpid UJ on the door pillar. The music is limpid and languid, dripping grace and deft touches. Synonyms lucid, clear, plain, understandable, intelligible, comprehensible, perceptible, coherent, explicit, unambiguous, simple, vivid, sharp, direct, clear-cut, crystal clear, luminous, straightforward, distinct, perspicuous rare luculent Derivatives limpidity noun lɪmˈpɪdɪtilɪmˈpɪdədi The limpidity of intellect she enjoyed for most of her wretched life was inborn. Example sentencesExamples In his estimation, the Authorized Version, more than any other European Bible, had a flowing limpidity combined with ritual overtones. Perhaps the most notable of these celebrations is found in ‘River Music’, a three-part sequence in which he tried to draw a connection between the limpidity to which the medium lends itself and his own poetic ideal. Overall, the tonal balance, flattening of forms and coolness of colouring projects a feeling of utter limpidity. Having arrived in England in 1938 at the age of 23 as a student with very little English, he soon mastered the language sufficiently to write prose of outstanding clarity and limpidity. limpidly adverb ˈlɪmpɪdliˈlɪmpɪdli As always, the winds were limpidly beautiful, while the brass was forceful and satiny smooth. Example sentencesExamples The following ‘Largo’ runs longer than most, but I'd not have it a moment less: limpidly beautiful and, yes, a bit Romantic, like a Mendelssohn andante. Here ends this thoughtful, limpidly written exploration of screws and screwdrivers, the passage of time, the evolution of civilizations, and human invention. Set by an idyllic lake in his home county of Leitrim, in the west of Ireland, it is an Irish pastoral, limpidly and lyrically recording the story of a year from one Easter at the beginning of the 1980s to the next. limpidness noun Origin Late Middle English: from Latin limpidus; perhaps related to lymph. Definition of limpid in US English: limpid adjectiveˈlimpidˈlɪmpɪd 1(of a liquid) free of anything that darkens; completely clear. Example sentencesExamples For the limpid quality of the water here, the colour of the coral and variety of fish, it's the place for your final sundowner, breathtaking and unforgettable. This is a beautiful beryl gem of purest water, eight-faceted, well cut, clear and limpid, possessed of all good qualities and through it is strung a blue, yellow, red, white or brown thread. With the recent fish kill in Jagaranahalli Lake last Wednesday, the spotlight is once again on the state of the city's once limpid lakes. The four-meter-thick walls are as solid as ever, and swans still glide over the moat's limpid waters. Their luster was superb as was their limpid green color and transparency. In Weihai, a clear city certified by Chinese authorities, you can expect to enjoy the most limpid sea water along China's coast. We are told that the baptism took place at Killoughternane where the streams of two fountains meet and, on account of the limpid purity of the waters, he was baptised by the name of Finnlach, ‘The Child of the Limpid Fountain’. There was a rudimentary path leading towards a sapphire-blue limpid pool of water into which a natural spring cascaded down the plateau face. If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall. The anchor dropped through 20 ft of limpid water and we slipped over the side to swim and snorkel before lunch. The waters of the lake are limpid, the colour of jade, and reflect the surrounding beauty of the peaks and trees. Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges. His music sounds as if it is being sung to a listener on the mainland from some siren's island far off in the limpid sea. Below nestled a shingle cove of limpid water and fearless little fish, qualities that tend to bring the boy out of the man. They would converge on the place each summer, moor their yachts in the limpid waters off Capriccioli or Cala di Volpe, and take it in turns to host parties on board or on beach. There was a limpid pool of emerald water rimmed with brown sand, set in a giant's jumble of rubbed granite blocks. Picture the many forms of water - from swelling surf to torrential rain to spouting geyser to limpid pool to sparkling bubbles to tinkling iceblocks to healing tears. Synonyms clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy 1.1 (of a person's eyes) unclouded; clear. Example sentencesExamples In Duccio's rendering, Mary's limpid eyes are reservoirs of reflection. Seen from the above, the lake resembles a pair of limpid eyes. Ryann crouched in the cell, her eyes wet, her gaze limpid. Although facing left, Paula directs her bold, limpid eyes back to center stage. Margalo is a wounded bird with huge limpid eyes, and Stuart is smitten. Her eyes were large and limpid, but definitely not innocent. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser. Having apparently completed her dissertation, Malie rested her chin on one fist and regarded him with limpid, rather bovine eyes. Barth saw from his place at the doorway that she was looking up into his best friend's face with large limpid eyes and her lips parting to show her most dazzling white smile, her arms twined around his neck. Holding that limpid gaze, she saw something his original owner, who'd abandoned him on a south London housing estate, clearly didn't. I was beginning to feel all tingly as he gazed into the limpid pool of my eyes and profess his honorable intentions. Her amber eyes reflected in the mirror were limpid, and alluring. Garcia, with his classic dark looks and limpid brown eyes, knows all too well how easy it is for his female students to fall in love. Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words. Hugh's ears are pointed and his eyes are like these limpid pools I keep hearing so much about. Her limpid eyes were intoxicating, holding him, and imprisoning him. Her eyes take in everything, limpid and deep, revealing a kind of rawness that's hard to read. There was a twinkle in his limpid brown eyes. Despite his plain clothing he was very striking with short neatly-combed back auburn hair, an oval face, a baby-faced countenance, a medium, but short build and piercing, limpid bluish-green eyes. A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms. Synonyms clear, transparent, glassy, glass-like, crystal clear, crystalline, see-through, translucent, pellucid, unclouded, uncloudy 1.2 (especially of writing or music) clear and accessible or melodious. the limpid notes of a recorder Example sentencesExamples As in the Debussy, the layering of texture brought chiarascuro to the music, the melody highlighted through the limpid falling thirds of the first and the pulsating chords of the second, with its emotive central interlude. Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity. It is a more limpid and beautiful piece of music than you might expect from a band known for live performances that regularly culminate in unpredictable, slightly disturbing onstage violence. With Pascal Devoyon as like-thinking partner, he gives limpid performances of music well worth an airing. Note the chair placed near to the doorway and the limpid UJ on the door pillar. On the contrary, a limpid, understated vignette can be just as strong and striking. Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch. The Choir of Westminster Cathedral responds with a limpid beauty to the direction of Martin Baker whose patient enthusiasm is very evident in the ecstatic end-product. His penchant for big questions, his lucid and often limpid prose, and his willingness to pose unconventional and unpopular arguments have combined to make him a must-read. Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music. Gouffé wrote in a limpid style, comprehensible by all and exhibiting a standard of literary craftsmanship which equalled the author's skill in the kitchen. The music is limpid and languid, dripping grace and deft touches. A simple accompaniment serves as a baseline from which a limpid melody explodes into a dizzy display of vocal pyrotechnics. Each bird's voice is but four limpid notes, delivered in slow, syncopated cadence, rising to a bell-like question mark. In brief and limpid episodes French director Alain Cavalier bares the masochism, eroticism, and purity at the heart of Therese's self-enclosed crusade. Neale, himself famed for his literary style, described the prose as ‘lucid and limpid and always charged with vitality’. Synonyms lucid, clear, plain, understandable, intelligible, comprehensible, perceptible, coherent, explicit, unambiguous, simple, vivid, sharp, direct, clear-cut, crystal clear, luminous, straightforward, distinct, perspicuous Origin Late Middle English: from Latin limpidus; perhaps related to lymph.
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