Complete Definition of "perspicuous"

English

Etymology

From the Latin perspicuus, in turn from perspicere, to see through something.

Adjective
Perspicuous

  1. Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid. Used in logic to describe a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus, where the process of inference from premise|premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.

Related terms
perspicuity
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