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Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.

lucid (comparative lucider or more lucid, superlative lucidest or most lucid)

  1. Clear; easily understood.
    • 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎[1]:
      [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
  2. Mentally rational; sane.
  3. Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 57:
      The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.
    • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
      Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]

clear; easily understood

mentally rational; sane

bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

Translations to be checked

lucid (plural lucids)

  1. A lucid dream.
    • 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness, page 163:
      The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings […]

Borrowed from French lucide. Compare the inherited form Latin luced

lucid m or n (feminine singular lucidă, masculine plural lucizi, feminine/neuter plural lucide)

  1. lucid, clear-sighted

lucid

  1. second-person plural imperative of lucir