Crossword clues for clearest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clear \Clear\ (kl[=e]r), a. [Compar. Clearer (-[~e]r); superl. Clearest.] [OE. cler, cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, bright, loud, distinct, renowned; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. Chanticleer, Clairvoyant, Claret, Clarify.]
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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear.
--Denham.Fair as the moon, clear as the sun.
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Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
One truth is clear; whatever is, is right.
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Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents.
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Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts.
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Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear.
--Pope. Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
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Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear.
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Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year.
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Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
My companion . . . left the way clear for him.
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Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear.
--Gay.Clear breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days.
Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.
Syn: Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous. See Manifest.
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Usage examples of "clearest".
One of my clearest memories of that vicious time is Ralph being attacked by one of my old friends in the billiard room of the Pendennis Club in downtown Louisville on Saturday night.
Now, many months later, my clearest memory of that whole Killy scene is a momentary expression on the face of a man who had nothing to do with it.
One of my clearest memories of that wretched weekend is the sight of Jerry Rubin standing forlornly on the steps of a marble building near the Capitol, watching a gang fight at the base of a flagpole.
And the roar of the pro-Spinks crowd was the clearest message of all: that uppity nigger from Louisville had finally got what was coming to him.
The clearest demand for world-wide cooperation before the war, came from the Second International.
Even on the clearest night the keep looked haunted, collecting pockets of fog and throwing crooked shadows across the grounds.
There were powerful forces working against their quest for the Tower, dark ones, and Black Thirteen was their clearest sigul.
Jake reached out with his mind while his imagination suddenly bloomed with a powerful and terrifying vividness that was beyond even the clearest dreams.
She fed him rich forest grasses and fine oats mixed with the clearest water in all of Wales.
This key unlocks them all, and the efforts of this principle to establish itself, and to overthrow its opponents, explain events otherwise inexplicable, and show us in the clearest possible manner what are and what are not the great opposing forces that have since been at feud.
The difficulty of obtaining Roman Catholic members of juries to convict in Ribband cases, even upon the clearest evidence, greatly impeded the course of justice in Ireland.
Jews, is the clearest proof that what was above all prized was faith in Christ and surrender to him as the saviour.
This much, however, is unmistakable, that Marcion succeeded in placing the greatness and uniqueness of redemption through Christ in the clearest light and in beholding this redemption in the person of Christ, but chiefly in his death upon the cross.
The subtle human intellect can weave its mists over even the clearest vision.
It would be strange if, while the creature has that marvellous power of disposing of himself, of choosing and willing freely, the Being that has made him should be subject to a necessary development, the cause of which, though in Himself, is a sort of abstract, mechanical, or metaphysical power, inferior to the personal, voluntary cause which we are, and of which we have the clearest consciousness.