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transpicuous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /tɹænzˈpɪkjʊəs/
• (US) audio
• /tɹænˈspɪkjʊəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānspicuus (“transparent”).

Meanings

1. (rare) Easily construed or seen through.
   • The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won converts by their transpicuous innocence. 1983, Hugh Trevor Roper, “The Highland Tradition of Scotland”, in Eric Hobsbawm, editor, The Invention of Tradition, page 41:

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Deriveds

transpicuously · intertranspicuous · transpicuousness