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1 —as in:
transparent shower door
Definition
able to be seen through with clarity- The transparent shower door shows water spots.
transparent = capable of being seen through with clarity
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- As a safety measure, the school now insists that all backpacks and school bags be transparent.
- Twice I walked into a spider's web, feeling the fine, transparent threads across my face, and I liked them there.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- The wall flickered, quivered, grew transparent.Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
- There was such a depth of it, and yet it was almost as transparent as air.George Orwell -- 1984
- But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. The wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- Pearly-white and slightly transparent, they glided across the room talking to one another and hardly glancing at the first years.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- Scrooge asked the question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair; and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation.Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
- They sat hunched on the bench, each holding in hand a hornbook, a small stout-handled wooden slab on which was fastened a tiny sheet of paper, protected by a thin strip of transparent horn held in place by a narrow leather strip and tiny brass nails.Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
transparent = capable of being seen through with clarity
transparent = capable of being seen through
transparent = capable of being seen through
transparent = capable of being seen through
transparent = capable of being seen through
transparent = capable of being seen through
transparent = capable of being seen through
transparent = capable of being seen through
transparent = easily seen through
2 —as in:
transparent lie
Definition
obvious despite attempts to hide- She tried to hide her emotions, but her true feelings were transparent.
transparent = obvious despite attempts to hide
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- It was a transparent lie.
- Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- She was transparent, but she was there.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
transparent = obvious (despite attempts to hide it)
3 —as in:
transparent decision making
Definition
easily observable or understood- They promised a transparent budgetary process.
transparent = easily observable or understood
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Jem's head at times was transparent: he had thought that up to make me understand he wasn't afraid of Radleys in any shape or form, to contrast his own fearless heroism with my cowardice.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus to make it a bright transparency; to spiritualise the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek, resolutely, the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents, and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- —then, at some inevitable moment, will the soul of the sufferer be dissolved, and flow forth in a dark but transparent stream, bringing all its mysteries into the daylight.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- The best hope for limiting excessive political influence of special interest groups is to make the decision-making process more transparent.
transparent = easily understood
transparency = something easily observable and understood
transparent = easily observable or understood
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