Abstruse vs. Lucid — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Abstruse and Lucid
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Abstruse
Difficult to understand; obscure
An abstruse philosophical inquiry
Lucid
Expressed clearly; easy to understand
Write in a clear and lucid style
A lucid account
Abstruse
Difficult to understand; recondite
The students avoided the professor's abstruse lectures.
Lucid
Bright or luminous
Birds dipped their wings in the lucid flow of air
Abstruse
Difficult to comprehend or understand; obscure.
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Lucid
Clearly expressed; easily understood
A lucid analysis of the problem.
Abstruse
(obsolete) Concealed or hidden; secret.
Lucid
Thinking or expressing oneself clearly, especially between periods of confusion; clearheaded
The feverish patient was lucid now and then.
Abstruse
Concealed or hidden out of the way.
The eternal eye whose sight discernsAbstrusest thoughts.
Lucid
Brightly lit; luminous
"A lucid yellow moon was rising when Luke wheeled his truck to the curb and got out" (Willie Morris).
Abstruse
Remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.
Profound and abstruse topics.
Lucid
Clear; transparent
A lucid stream.
Abstruse
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge;
The professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
A deep metaphysical theory
Some recondite problem in historiography
Lucid
Clear; easily understood
Lucid
Mentally rational; sane
Lucid
Bright, luminous, translucent or transparent
Lucid
A lucid dream.
Lucid
Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Lucid, like a glowworm.
A court compact of lucid marbles.
Lucid
Clear; transparent.
Lucid
Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate.
Lucid
Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
Lucid
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable;
Writes in a limpid style
Lucid directions
A luculent oration
Pellucid prose
A crystal clear explanation
A perspicuous argument
Lucid
Having a clear mind;
A lucid moment in his madness
Lucid
Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner;
A lucid thinker
She was more coherent than she had been just after the accident
Lucid
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 cristal
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