perspicuous
/pəˈspɪkjʊəs
/adjective formal
1Clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid: it provides simpler and more perspicuous explanations than its rivals...
- What the philosophers in question owe us is a perspicuous explanation of how there can be a class of entities which do not behave like particulars.
- They appreciated the high seriousness and the perspicuous aspects of his intelligence, both evident in his books.
- Montague suggested a perspicuous way to capture the principle of compositionality formally.
1.1Able to give an account or express an idea clearly.His was a perfectly balanced personality - tolerant, truthful, perspicuous and magnanimous....
- He is now, though not wholly perspicuous, less enigmatic than he was at the beginning.
Derivatives
perspicuity
/ noun ...- Mr Gray's claims also contradict the principle of the perspicuity of Scripture - that the ordinary Christian can understand the Bible.
- We believe in the authority, sufficiency, inspiration, perspicuity, inerrancy and providential preservation of the Scriptures.
- My reply is that the increase in risk of error in accepting the conjunction is negligible and the gain in perspicuity in accepting the conjunction is considerable.
perspicuously
/ adverb ...- But I think that the reason is that we experience the effects of late capitalism more perspicuously.
- It seeks, that is, not only to articulate and explicate - to perspicuously display - naturalism, but as well to give sound and rounded defence of naturalism.
- My point, rather, is that the scholastic interpretation is just that, an interpretation-not a reading of what the text perspicuously says.
perspicuousness
Origin
Late 15th century (in the sense 'transparent'): from Latin perspicuus 'transparent, clear' (from the verb perspicere 'look at closely') + -ous.
Rhymes
- sub-postmistress
- sub-post office
- sub-praefect
- subpreceptor
- subpredicate
- sub-prefect
- sub-prefectorial
- sub-prefecture
- subprimal
- sub-prime
- subprincipal
- subprior
- sub-prioress
- subprocess
- subprogram
- subprogramme
- sub-protector
- subprovince
- sub-provincial
- subpunctuation
- sub-purchaser
- sub-quality
- sub-race
- subradius
- subrange