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   The meaning of TRANSPICUOUS is clearly seen through or understood. Did you know?

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   There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective transpicuous. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   See examples of TRANSPICUOUS used in a sentence.

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   Define transpicuous. transpicuous synonyms, transpicuous pronunciation, transpicuous translation, English dictionary definition of transpicuous. adj. Easily understood or seen through: transpicuous motives.

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   transpicuous. → a less common word for transparent.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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   The joy of an infant, or joy-generation, without significance to an unprofound and common mind -- how strange to see the excess of pathos in that; yet men of any (or at least of much) sensibility see in this a transpicuous masque for another form, viz., the eternal ground of sorrow in all human hearts. Of this opinion also was _Cæsar la Galla ...

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   Where did the word transpicuous come from?

   • The earliest known use of the adjective transpicuous is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for transpicuous is from 1638, in the writing of John Wilkins, theologian and natural philosopher. transpicuous is a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin transpicuus, ‑ous suffix.

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   What is the difference between conspicuous and transpicuous?

   • Transpicuous is derived from the Latin word transpicere, meaning "to look through." Transpicere, in turn, is a formation that combines trans-, meaning "through," and specere, meaning "to look" or "to see." If you guessed that transpicuous is related to conspicuous, you're correct.

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   What is the difference between transpicuous and perspicacious?

   • ( Per-, like trans-, means "through.") There's also perspicacious, meaning "keen and observant." (You might say that perspicuous and transpicuous mean "able to be seen through," whereas perspicacious means "able to see through.")

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   transpicuous ( comparative more transpicuous, superlative most transpicuous) Easily construed or seen through. "The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won converts by their transpicuous innocence."