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Definitions of transparent
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so thin as to transmit light; " a hat with a diaphanous veil"; " filmy wings of a moth"; " gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; " gossamer cobwebs"; " sheer silk stockings"; " transparent chiffon"; " vaporous silks"
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transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; " the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; " crystal clear skies"; " could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; " lucid air"; " a pellucid brook"; " transparent cristal"
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free of deceit
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easily understood or seen through ( because of a lack of subtlety); " a transparent explanation"; " a transparent lie"
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Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.
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Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; - opposed to opaque.
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Allowing rays of light to pass through, or capable of being easily seen through; easy to understand; frank.
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Noting a substance so permeable to light rays that objects may be seen through it.
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That may be distinctly seen through: clear.
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TRANSPARENTLY.
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TRANSPARENTNESS.
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Allowing objects to be seen through; clear.
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That can be seen through, as clear glass; easy to understand.
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Having the property of transmitting rays of light, and that objects may be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; clear.
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That may be seen through; opposite of opaque; clear; limpid.
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Usage examples for transparent
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And thus beautifully runs our pure transparent life along, under the blooming curtains of May; and in our modest pleasure, we look with timidity neither behind us nor before; as people who are lifting treasure gaze not round at the road they came, or the road they are going. – The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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Transparent stockings, stretched to breaking point. – Ulysses by James Joyce
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Everything in her life was so transparent – Best Russian Short Stories by Various
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It's a perfectly transparent dodge. – The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil
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His wing covers, on the other hand, were round and transparent – African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
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L. No; unless in the case of a transparent substance. – The Ethics of the Dust by John Ruskin
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He had added, in the transparent self- justification of selfish youth, " And I'll pay it back to him every cent." – Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield
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" My dear Ulrica," said Lady Ormstork in her superior fashion, " how could you allow yourself to be taken in by such a transparent pretence? – A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
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Phoebe- who had seemed so transparent and whom, as he now realised, no one but Archelaus had ever really known.... – Secret Bread by F. Tennyson Jesse
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She really appreciated the things she saw, though she only saw them through as much of Ted's mind as was transparent to her at the moment. – Audrey Craven by May Sinclair
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Nietzsche is one of the supreme masters of language, in a literature which counts very few masters of language, and the beauty of his style is transparent even in the disguise of a foreign translation. – German Problems and Personalities by Charles Sarolea
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Who wanted to be a simple, transparent fellow, whom any one could lead? – The Love Affairs of Pixie by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
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This will render it perfectly clear and transparent – Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
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With this highly transparent ruse Barton expressed his content. – The Mark Of Cain by Andrew Lang
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The story, as used in the nursery, has a transparent purpose. – The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
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A platform of a substance resembling glascite- transparent and with a glascite shield V- shaped in front to break the rush of wind and yet give vision. – Tarrano the Conqueror by Raymond King Cummings
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You mean it was transparent – The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald Keyhoe
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Those who felt any desire to speak, after they had been stricken by the gaze of Lazarus, described the change that had come over them somewhat like this: All objects seen by the eye and palpable to the hand became empty, light and transparent as though they were light shadows in the darkness; and this darkness enveloped the whole universe. – Best Russian Short Stories by Various
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Senator North is the reverse of transparent but sometimes he goes to the point in a manner which leaves nothing to be desired. – Senator North by Gertrude Atherton
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His figure became red, white, transparent dazzling- a blaze of intense light- rose, trembled, and disappeared. – Famous Stories Every Child Should Know by Various