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Adjective: transparent  tran'spa-runt
  1. Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
    "transparent crystal"
    - crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid
     
  2. So thin as to transmit light
    "transparent chiffon"
    - diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous [Brit, non-standard], cobwebby, vapory [US], vapoury [Brit, Cdn]
     
  3. Free of deceit
    - guileless
     
  4. Easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety)
    "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie"

See also: clear, obvious, square, straight, thin, transparency, transparently, transparentness

Encyclopedia: Transparent