Word Meanings - DIAPHANOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIAPHANOUS)

• Transparent
• Pellucid
• crystalline
• translucent
• limpid
• diaphanous
• obvious
• clear
• indisputable
• self-evident

Related words: (words related to DIAPHANOUS)

• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• INDISPUTABLE
  Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• PELLUCIDITY; PELLUCIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.
• PELLUCIDLY
  In a pellucid manner.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• DIAPHANOUS
  Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear. Another cloud in the region of them, light enough to be fantastic and diaphanous. Landor.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• LIMPIDNESS
  Quality of being limpid; limpidity.
• OBVIOUS
  1. Opposing; fronting. To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. "Obvious to dispute." Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident;
• LIMPID
  Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. Woodward. Syn. -- Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright.
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• CLEAR-CUT
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson. 2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.
• SELF-EVIDENT
  Evident without proof or reasoning; producing certainty or conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind; as, a self-evident proposition or truth. -- Self`-ev"i*dent*ly, adv.
• CLEARSTARCH
  To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
• CLEARSTARCHER
  One who clearstarches.
• CLEARNESS
  The quality or state of being clear. Syn. -- Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas, and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• SUBPELLUCID
  Somewhat pellucid; nearly pellucid.