Clear, transparent, translucent, lucid, pellucid, diaphanous, limpid are comparable when they mean having the property of being literally or figuratively seen through.
Category: Synonyms
Clean vs Cleanse
Clean, cleanse mean to remove whatever soils, stains, or contaminates from someone or something.
Clean vs Cleanly
Clean, cleanly are often confused.
Class vs Grade vs Rank vs Rate vs Graduate vs Gradate
Class, grade, rank, rate, graduate, gradate are synonyms in that they all involve the idea of ordering a number of things according to a scale or of placing a thing in its due order.
Class vs Category vs Genus vs Species vs Denomination vs Genre
Class, category, genus, species, denomination, genre are compared here only in their general, nonspecialized use, and the following comments may be inapplicable to such technical fields as philosophy and the sciences.
Claim vs Title vs Pretension vs Pretense
Claim, title, pretension, pretense are comparable when they denote an actual or alleged right to demand something as one’s possession, quality, power, or prerogative.
Civilization vs Culture
Civilization, culture are comparable when meaning the particular state or stage of advancement in which a race, a people, a nation, a specific class, or an integrated group of these finds itself at a given period.
Civil vs Polite vs Courteous vs Courtly vs Gallant vs Chivalrous
Civil, polite, courteous, courtly, gallant, chivalrous are comparable as applied to persons or their words and acts when in intercourse with others with the meaning observant of the forms required by good breeding.
Civic vs Civil vs Civilian
Civic, civil, civilian are not close synonyms but rather words whose meanings lend themselves to confusion.
Citizen vs Subject vs National
Citizen, subject, national are comparable when denoting a person who is regarded as a member of a sovereign state, entitled to its protection, and subject to its laws.
Circumstantial vs Minute vs Particular vs Particularized vs Detailed vs Itemized
Circumstantial, minute, particular, particularized, detailed, itemized are comparable when they mean dealing with a matter point by point.
Circumference vs Perimeter vs Periphery vs Circuit vs Compass
Circumference, perimeter, periphery, circuit, compass are comparable because all in their basic senses denote a continuous line enclosing an area or space.