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  • 41neat — neat, tidy, trim, trig, snug, shipshape, spick and span mean manifesting care and orderliness. Neat through all its variations in sense keeps as its basic implication clearness, such as the clearness from dirt or soil that is manifest chiefly in… …

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  • 42clear — [klir] adj. [ME cler < OFr < L clarus, orig., clear sounding, hence clear, bright: for IE base see CLAMOR] 1. free from clouds or mist; bright; light [a clear day] 2. free from cloudiness, muddiness, etc.; transparent or pure; not turbid [a …

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  • 43limpidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑lucidness, ↑pellucidity, ↑clearness • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …

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  • 44lucidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidness, ↑pellucidity, ↑clearness, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness …

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  • 45lucidness — noun free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑pellucidity, ↑clearness, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …

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  • 46pellucidity — noun 1. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression • Syn: ↑clarity, ↑lucidity, ↑lucidness, ↑clearness, ↑limpidity • Ant: ↑unclearness (for: ↑ …

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  • 47Brightness — Bright ness, n. [AS. beorhines. See {Bright}.] 1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. [1913 Webster] A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. [1913 Webster] 2. Acuteness (of the faculties);… …

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  • 48Dimness — Dim ness, n. [AS. dimness.] 1. The state or quality ? being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity. [1913 Webster] 2. Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception. Dr. H. More. Syn:… …

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  • 49Distinctness — Dis*tinct ness, n. 1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. [1913 Webster] The soul s . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. [1913 Webster] 2. Nice discrimination;… …

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  • 50Equivocal — E*quiv o*cal, a. [L. aequivocus: aequus equal + vox, vocis, word. See {Equal}, and {Voice}, and cf. {Equivoque}.] 1. (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double… …

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