CRYSTAL CLEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crystal clear mean? 

• CRYSTAL CLEAR (adjective)
  The adjective CRYSTAL CLEAR has 2 senses:

1. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

2. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

  Familiarity information: CRYSTAL CLEAR used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYSTAL CLEAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity

Synonyms:

crystal clear; crystalline; limpid; lucid; pellucid; transparent

Context example:

transparent crystal

Similar:

clear (allowing light to pass through)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable

Synonyms:

crystal clear; limpid; lucid; luculent; pellucid; perspicuous

Context example:

a perspicuous argument

Similar:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

Domain category:

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

 Context examples 

And afterwards the very memory of it will keep faith crystal clear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Awaking in the dead of night, I opened my eyes on her disk—silver-white and crystal clear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)