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💡 Letting light through 🫥 Partly clear
translucently

translucently

5.2
In a way that lets light pass but hides clear shapes
  • adverb
  • /trænˈsluːsəntli/
translation icon : translúcidamente
  • As the sun set, the clouds turned a translucently pink, allowing a soft glow to fill the room.

Examples

  • The window was translucently frosted, providing privacy while still letting in natural light.

  • The lampshade was made of a material that allowed light to shine through translucently without revealing the exact shape of the lightbulb.

  • Sallie has pale, almost animal-blue eyes and translucently caramel northern European skin.

    Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

sheerly
vstranslucently
5.0

In a thin, almost see-through way often used for light fabric

lets light pass but blurs shapes rather than showing details

Antonyms

opaquely
1 8.0

In a way that is hard to understand or see through

How Transparent

translucently
5.2
opaquely
1 8.0

Surface Forms

translucently positive
translucentlyer comparative
translucentlyest superlative

Morphology

translucently = translucent (transparent) = trans + lucent + ly

Standard adverbial formation from the adjective 'translucent'; the meaning is directly derived by adding '-ly'.

Etymology

The word translucently comes from the parts trans- 'through' and luc- 'light', the same root you see in lucid which means 'clear'. So, something lit translucently lets light pass 'through' it but not detailed shapes.