Her skin was almost translucent.
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Translucent
//tɹænzˈlu.sənt//
Synonyms for "translucent" (66 found)
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Related words (33)
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7 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
70 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- διαυγής adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- διαφανής adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Bulgarian
2 entries- полупрозрачен adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- прозиращ adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Catalan
2 entries- translúcid adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- translúcid adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 半透明 adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- 清楚 adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- 透明 adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Czech
2 entries- průsvitný adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- průsvitný adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Dutch
3 entries- doorschijnend adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- lichtdoorlatend adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- verstrooiend adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Esperanto
1 entries- diafana adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Finnish
3 entries- kirkas adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- läpikuultava adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- läpikuultava adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
French
1 entries- translucide adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Galician
1 entries- translúcido adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
German
4 entries- lichtdurchlässig adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- luzid adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- transluzent adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- transparent adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Greek
3 entries- διαυγής adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- διαφανής adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- ημιδιαφανής adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Gujarati
1 entries- અર્ધપારદર્શક adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Hungarian
1 entries- áttetsző adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Italian
1 entries- traslucido adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Japanese
2 entries- 半透明な adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- 澄んだ adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Korean
1 entries- 반투명(半透明)한 adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- transparent adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- transparent adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Macedonian
1 entries- полупроѕирен adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Malay
1 entries- lutcahaya adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Māori
3 entries- kōrahirahi adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- kōrahirahi adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- whakatiaho adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- nîvçeron adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- nîvçezelal adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- شفاف adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Piedmontese
2 entries- tralusent adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- tralusent adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Polish
4 entries- jasny adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- przejrzysty adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- przeświecający adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- półprzezroczysty adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Portuguese
3 entries- claro adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- diáfano adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- translúcido adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Russian
4 entries- полупрозра́чный adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- прозра́чный adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- просве́чивающий adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- я́сный adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- trìd-shoillseach adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- trìd-shoillseach adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
Spanish
3 entries- claro adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- transluciente adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- translúcido adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Tagalog
3 entries- mainag adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- nanganganinag adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- nganinagin adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Thai
1 entries- โปร่งแสง adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Turkish
4 entries- buzlu adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- saydam adj (clear, lucid, or transparent)
- yarı saydam adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
- yarı şeffaf adj (allowing light to pass through, but diffusing it)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Add the rice and cook gently until the grains begin to turn translucent.
Source: tatoeba (2654509)
Your pupil is blue and when you laugh, its muted clarity reminds me of the shimmering dazzling light of the morning that is reflected in the sea. Your pupil is blue and when you cry, I imagine the translucent tears as drops of dew on a violet. Your pupil is blue, and when, in its aura, like a point of light radiating an idea, it appears to me as a lost star in the evening sky.
Source: tatoeba (4409670)
She only bathes her shapely limbs in the pool, often combs out her hair, with a comb that is made of boxwood from Cytorus, and looks in the water to see what suits it best. Then draped in a translucent robe, she lies down on the soft leaves, or in the soft grass.
Source: tatoeba (6211821)
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