crystal clear
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.34 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Completely clear (in various senses).
adj
Completely clear (in various senses).
adj
Completely clear (in various senses).
adj
Completely clear (in various senses).
adj
Completely clear (in various senses).
Example Sentences
- "Reread through the manual until the instructions are crystal clear in your head."
- "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?"
- "At a very basic level, technology almost always supplants some level of humanity. Not only does machine power replace manpower, but it distances, if not isolates, us from each other and from reality in the process. / See for yourself. Pick a technology. Any technology. / The crystal clearest example is probably the advance from cannon balls to atom bombs."
- "For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight."
- "The picture on this TV is crystal clear – you can see every grain of sand!"
- "The key is that only the original negative can produce the crystal clearest photographic image."
Etymology
From Middle English cristal cleer. Emphatic form of clear in visual and metaphorical “understandable” senses. Compare clear as a bell (“very clear (of sound)”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more crystal clear (comparative)
crystal clearer (comparative, rare)
most crystal clear (superlative)
crystal clearest (rare, superlative)
crystal-clear (alternative)