Word of the Day: Limpid

lim-pid

 

adjective

 

1. completely clear, transparent

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.

St. Teresa of Ávila,   1515 – 1582

 

2. clear; easy to understand

A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.

G. M. Trevelyan, 1876 – 1962

 

3. calm and untroubled

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Cameroonian Saying