Meaning & use
crystalline
Made of or resembling crystals, especially in having a clear, regular structure.
See it in a sentence
Sunlight scattered through the crystalline ice covering the frozen lake's surface.
Her crystalline explanation made the complicated tax rules easy for everyone to understand.
A note on using this word
Crystalline can describe literal crystal structure or, figuratively, exceptional clarity in thought, sound, or writing.
Words with a similar meaning
cleartransparent
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Words with an opposite meaning
cloudyopaque
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