was wotd|2006|June|1
English
Etymology
From Latin limpidus.
Pronunciation
IPA|/�lɪmpɪd/
audio|en-us-limpid.ogg|Audio (US)
Adjective
limpid
#clear|Clear, particularly transparent or bright.
Quotations
timeline|
1800s=1841 1870 1876|
1900s=1902 1904
1841 � w:James Fenimore Cooper|James Fenimore Cooper, s:The Deerslayer|The Deerslayer, Ch. 2
:On a level with the point lay a broad sheet of water, so placid and limpid that it resembled a bed of the pure mountain atmosphere.
1870 � w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, s:The Mystery of Edwin Drood|The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Ch. IV
:Her limpid blue eyes were fixed upon me, her semi-transparent hands were clasped together, pallor overspread her aquiline features, and, though encouraged to proceed, she never did proceed a word further.
1876 � w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain, s:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. XIV
:Tom stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered away with a shout, and in a minute or two were stripped and chasing after and tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sandbar.
1902 � w:Rudyard Kipling|Rudyard Kipling, s:Just So Stories|Just So Stories : s:Just So Stories: The Elephant's Child|The Elephant's Child
:Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake scuffled down from the bank and said, 'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the large-pattern leather ulster' (and by this he meant the Crocodile) 'will jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson.'
1904 � w:L. Frank Baum|L. Frank Baum, s:The Marvelous Land of Oz|The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ch. 13
:"I must have lived fully three years in that secluded school-house hearth," said he, "drinking thirstily of the ever-flowing fount of limpid knowledge before me."
Translations
Finnish: kirkas
French: limpide
Hebrew: :he:צ���|צ���
mid
Italian: limpido
Kurdish: ge�, ron, zelal
Panjabi: :pa:ਸਾਫ |ਸਾਫ, :pa: ਸਪਸ਼�|ਸਪਸ਼�
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