Dictionary Definition
clear adj
1 clear to the mind; "a clear and present
danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear
indication that she was angry"; "gave us a clear idea of human
nature" [ant: unclear]
2 free from confusion or doubt; "a complex
problem requiring a clear head"; "not clear about what is expected
of us"
3 affording free passage or view; "a clear view";
"a clear path to victory" [syn: open]
4 free from cloudiness; allowing light to pass
through; "clear water"; "clear plastic bags"; "clear glass"; "the
air is clear and clean" [ant: opaque]
5 free from contact or proximity or connection;
"we were clear of the danger"; "the ship was clear of the reef"
[syn: clear(p)]
6 characterized by freedom from troubling
thoughts (especially guilt); "a clear conscience"; "regarded her
questioner with clear untroubled eyes"
7 (of sound or color) free from anything that
dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral
recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and
blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell" [syn: clean, light, unclouded]
8 (especially of a title) free from any
encumberance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law;
"I have clear title to this property" [syn: unmortgaged]
9 clear and distinct to the senses; easily
perceptible; "as clear as a whistle"; "clear footprints in the
snow"; "the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather";
"a spire clean-cut against the sky"; "a clear-cut pattern" [syn:
clean-cut,
clear-cut]
10 accurately stated or described; "a set of
well-defined values" [syn: well-defined]
[ant: ill-defined]
11 free from clouds or mist or haze; "on a clear
day" [ant: cloudy]
12 free of restrictions or qualifications; "a
clean bill of health"; "a clear winner" [syn: clean]
13 free from flaw or blemish or impurity; "a
clear perfect diamond"
14 clear of charges or deductions; "a clear
profit"
15 easily deciphered [syn: decipherable, readable]
16 freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved
from all blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his
official honor is vindicated" [syn: absolved, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated]
17 characterized by ease and quickness in
perceiving; "clear mind"; "a percipient author" [syn: percipient]
18 of complexion; without such blemishes as e.g.
acne; "the clear complexion of a healthy young woman"
Noun
1 the state of being free of suspicion;
"investigation showed that he was in the clear"
2 a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of
land or water; "finally broke out of the forest into the open"
[syn: open] adv
1 completely; "read the book clear to the end";
"slept clear through the night"; "there were open fields clear to
the horizon" [syn: all the
way]
2 in an easily perceptible manner; "could be seen
clearly under the microscope"; "She cried loud and clear" [syn:
clearly]
Verb
2 make a way or path by removing objects; "Clear
a path through the dense forest"
3 become clear; "The sky cleared after the storm"
[syn: clear
up, light up,
brighten] [ant:
overcast]
4 grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear
the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized
this slanderous biography" [syn: authorize, authorise, pass]
5 remove; "clear the leaves from the lawn";
"Clear snow from the road"
6 go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared
the House" [syn: pass]
7 be debited and credited to the proper bank
accounts; "The check will clear within 2 business days" [ant:
bounce]
8 go away or disappear; "The fog cleared in the
afternoon"
9 pass by, over, or under without making contact;
"the balloon cleared the tree tops" [syn: top]
10 make free from confusion or ambiguity; make
clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question
of who is at fault" [syn: clear up,
shed
light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten
out, sort out,
enlighten, illuminate, elucidate]
11 free from payment of customs duties, as of a
shipment; "Clear the ship and let it dock"
12 clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution,
etc.; "clear the water before it can be drunk"
13 yield as a net profit; "This sale netted me $1
million" [syn: net]
15 earn on some commercial or business
transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month
in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger
brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" [syn:
gain, take in, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in]
16 sell; "We cleared a lot of the old model
cars"
17 pass an inspection or receive authorization;
"clear customs"
18 pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The
suspect was cleared of the murder charges" [syn: acquit, assoil, discharge, exonerate, exculpate] [ant: convict]
19 settle, as of a debt; "clear a debt"; "solve
an old debt" [syn: solve]
20 make clear, bright, light, or translucent;
"The water had to be cleared through filtering"
21 rid of instructions or data; "clear a memory
buffer"
22 remove (people) from a building; "clear the
patrons from the theater after the bomb threat"
23 remove the occupants of; "Clear the
building"
24 free (the throat) by making a rasping sound;
"Clear the throat" [syn: clear up]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Clear
English
Adjective
en-adj er- Completely transparent in colour
- as clear as crystal
- Bright,
not dark or obscured.
- The windshield was clear and clean.
- Congress passed the President’s Clear Skies legislation.
- The windshield was clear and clean.
- Free of obstacles.
- The driver had mistakenly thought the intersection was clear.
- The coast is clear.
- The driver had mistakenly thought the intersection was clear.
- Without clouds.
- clear weather, a clear day
- Free of ambiguity
or doubt.
- He gave clear instructions not to bother him at work.
- Do I make myself clear? Crystal clear.
- He gave clear instructions not to bother him at work.
- Free of guilt, or
suspicion.
- a clear conscience
- The sky is said to be clear, when less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- as clear as a bell
- as clear as day
- as clear as mud
- clarity
- clearly
- clearness
- crystal clear
- in the clear
- keep a clear head
- keep clear
Translations
completely transparent in colour
bright, not obscured
free of obstacles
without clouds
free of ambiguity or doubt
free of guilt or suspicion
meteorology: less than 1/8 obscured by clouds
- Finnish: selkeä
Adverb
- All the way; entirely.
-
- I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
-
Translations
Verb
- To remove obstructions or impediments.
- Clear the way.
- To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
- To remove from suspicion; especially of
having committed a crime
- The court cleared the man of murder.
- To pass without interference; to miss.
- The door just barely clears the table as it closes.
- To become clear.
- After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening.
- Of a check or
financial transaction, to go through
as payment; to be
processed so that the
money is transferred.
- The check might not clear for a couple of days.
- transitive business
To earn a profit of; to
net.
- He's been clearing seven thousand a week.
Translations
to remove obstructions or impediments
to eliminate ambiguity or doubt; to clarify
- Danish: opklare
- Finnish: selventää
- German: klären, aufklären, abklären, ausräumen
- Hebrew: להבהיר (le'havhyr)
- Slovene: razjasniti, pojasniti
- Spanish: aclarar, clarificar, esclarecer
to remove from suspicion
- Danish: rense
- Finnish: todeta syyttömäksi
- German: befreien, entheben
- Hebrew: לנקות (le'naqot)
- Spanish: eximir
to pass without interference to miss
to become clear
to go through as payment
- Danish: gennemføre
- Finnish: selvittää
- German: verrechnen, freigeben
- Spanish: franquear
- ttbc French: débarraser
- ttbc Indonesian: membersihkan, menghapus, menjadi jernih
- ttbc Japanese: 取り除く (とりのぞく, tori-nozoku), 透明になる (とうめいになる, tōmei ni naru)
- ttbc Turkish: (bir şeyin)önündeki engelleri kaldırmak, açıklığa kavuşturmak, üzerindeki şüpheyi kaldırmak, ıskalamak, yanından geçmek, netleştirmek, (takas) sonuçlanmak
Extensive Definition
Clear may refer to:
in modern culture
- Clear (album), by the band Spirit
- Clear (visual novel)
- Clear, an album and song by the band Cybotron
- Clear, an album by the band Bomb The Bass
- "Clear", a song by Miley Cyrus on her album Meet Miley Cyrus
in other uses
- Clear (Scientology), stated to be a condition in which a person is free of the unwanted influence of engrams
- clear (Unix), a computer programming command
- The clear, nickname for the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone
- CLEAR Framework for Enterprise Architecture, an enterprise architecture framework
- Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting, a software system used by the Chicago Police Department
- Clear, an airport security program
- Clear, a contracting company operating an express airport security screening program, founded by Steven Brill (law writer)
- Clear, a synonym for transparent
- Clear, the process of making good on an obligation, as with a cheque
See also
clear in French: Clear
clear in Dutch: Helderheid
clear in Japanese: クリア (曖昧さ回避)
clear in Simple English: Clear
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Attic,
Ciceronian, Mickey
Mouse, above water, abroad, absolute, absolve, absolved, abstract, account for, accumulate, acquire, acquit, acute, admitting no exception,
adrift, afield, afloat, afoot and lighthearted,
all abroad, all clear, all straight, all-embracing,
all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, altogether, ameliorate, amnesty, amortize, angelic, apodictic, apparent, appreciable, apprehensible, articulate, assured, astray, at large, at liberty,
audible, bald, balmy, bare, barren, beat it, become airborne,
bell-like, bestraddle, bestride, better, blameless, bland, blank, bleached, blooming, blossoming, blow, blow out, bolt, booming, born, bounce, bound, break, break loose, break out,
bright, brightly, broad-based, buck, buckjump, burn off, capitalize
on, capriole, cash in
on, cast off, cast out, casual, categorical, certain, characterless, chaste, childlike, chuck, clarified, clarify, clarion, classic, clean, clean out, clean up,
clean-cut, cleanly,
cleanse, clear, clear and distinct, clear
as crystal, clear as day, clear away, clear of, clear off, clear
out, clear the decks, clear the hurdle, clear up, clear-cut,
cleared, clearly, close, cloudless, coherent, coin money, come
along, come on, command,
commercialize,
complete, completely, comprehensible, comprehensive, conclusive, confident, congenital, connected, consistent, conspicuous, consummate, contrastive, contrive, convinced, crisp, cry sour grapes, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, curvet, cushy, cut away, cut down, cut
loose, cut out, cut the mustard, decamp, decided, decisive, decontaminate, decrassify, deep-dyed,
defecate, defined, definite, definitive, defray, deobstruct, depart, deplete, deport, depurate, destigmatize, detached, determinate, determined, devoid, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, disappear, disburden, discernible, discernibly, discerning, discharge, disclose, disclosed, disembarrass, disembarrassed, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disengaged, disentangle, disinvolve, dislodge, dismiss, dispense from, dispose
of, distill, distilled, distinct, distinctive, distinctly, do justice to,
dominate, dovelike, downright, drain, dyed-in-the-wool, earn, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, edulcorate, effortless, effulgently, egregious, eject, elegant, elide, eliminate, elucidate, elute, emancipated, empty, empty out, engineer, entire, entirely, eradicate, essentialize, evacuate, evanesce, evaporate, evident, exact, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exhaust, exhaustive, exile, exonerate, exonerated, expatriate, expel, explain, explicate, explicit, expose, exposed, express, extract, extricate, exuberant, facile, fade, fair, far afield, fat, faultless, featureless, filmy, filter, filtrate, final, fine, finished, fixed, flat, flat-out, floating, flourishing, flowering, fly aloft, footloose, footloose and
fancy-free, forgive,
forgiven, free, free and clear, free and
easy, free as air, free of, free up, freeborn, freed, fresh, fruiting, fully, gain, gain by, gather, gauzy, get, get along, get by, get on, get
out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give absolution,
glaring, glean, glib, global, go off, go on,
go-as-you-please, going strong, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, grant amnesty to, grant
immunity, grant remission, graspable, gross, guileless, guiltless, hack it, halcyon, hearable, hi-fi, high-fidelity,
hippety-hop, hollow,
honor, hop, hurdle, illuminate, illustrate, implicit, improve, in focus, in full
swing, in good case, in the clear, inane, inappealable, incontrovertible,
incorrupt, indisputable, indubitable, ineluctable, inevitable, innocent, insipid, intelligible, intensive, jump, jump off, jump over, justify, keen, knowable, lamblike, leach, leap, leap over, leapfrog, leave, leave the ground, legible, let go, let off,
liberate, liberated, lift, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, liquidate, lixiviate, look down upon,
loose, lose, loud and clear, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, luminously, lustrous, make, make a killing, make accounts
square, make clear, make it, make money, make money by, make out,
make plain, make the grade, manage, manage somehow, manifest, meliorate, milky, muddle through, naked, natural, neat, necessary, negotiate, net, nonopaque, nonpros, not guilty, nothing to
it, noticeable,
null, null and void,
observable, obtain, obvious, offenseless, omnibus, omnipresent, on the loose,
opalescent, open, open up, open-and-shut,
openhanded, out of
debt, out-and-out, outlaw, outright, outtop, over, overarch, overjump, overleap, overlook, overshadow, overskip, overt, overtop, painless, palmy, palpable, pardon, patefy, patent, pay, pay in full, pay off, pay the
bill, pay the shot, pay up, peekaboo, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perceptibly, perceptive, percolate, peremptory, perfect, perfectly, perfectly sure,
perspicacious,
perspicuous,
pervasive, pick out,
pick up, piping, plain, plain as day, pleasant, plumb, polished, positive, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon,
precise, predestined, predetermined, prelapsarian, pristine, profit, prominent, prominently, pronounced, prospering, public, published, pure, purge, purified, purify, put in order, put over,
put through, quash the charge, quit, quit of, quite, radiantly, radical, rainless, rationalize, readable, realize, realize on, recognizable, rectified, rectify, redeem, refine, refined, regular, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, released, relucent, remit, remove, repay, reproachless, restore, restrained, retire, reveal, revealing, rickety, rid, rid of, rise above, root out,
root up, rosy, rotate, round, rule out, run off, sans
reproche, satisfy,
scot-free, scour out, scram, scrape along, screen, secure, see-through, seeable, self-evident,
self-explaining, self-explanatory, sensible, sensitive, separate, serene, set free, set in order,
settle, shake off,
shaky, sharp, shed of, sheer, shining, shiny, shrive, shut of, sieve, sift, simple, simple as ABC, sink, sinless, ski jump, skip, sleek, smooth, soft, solve, solvent, sparkling, spiritualize, spring, square, square accounts, stabilize, staring, stark, starkly, start, start aside, start up,
steeplechase,
straight, straight-out,
straightforward,
strain, strike a balance,
strike off, strike out, sublimate, sublime, succeed in, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny, sure, sure-enough, surmount, sweep out, sweeping, swing, swing the deal, take, take off, take up, tangible, tasteful, taxi, tear loose, terse, thin, thorough, thoroughgoing, thriving, through-and-through,
throw off, throw over, throw overboard, tidy up, to be seen,
top, total, totally, tower above, tower
over, translucent,
translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, true, try, turn a penny, turn to account,
turn to profit, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unambiguous, unanchored, unattached, unblemished, unblended, unblock, unblocked, unbound, unburden, unburdened, unburdensome, uncase, uncircumscribed,
unclench, unclog, unclogged, unclosed, unclouded, unclutch, unclutter, uncombined, uncommitted, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconditional, unconfused, uncork, uncorrupted, uncover, uncovered, uncurtain, undarkened, undefiled, understandable, understandably, undiluted, undisputed, undo, undone, undoubting, undrape, unembarrassed, unencumbered, unengaged, unequivocal, unfallen, unfastened, unfixed, unfold, unfortified, unfoul, unhampered, unhandicapped, unhesitating, unhidden, unhindered, unimpeded, unindebted, uninvolved, universal, univocal, unknot, unlabored, unladen, unlapsed, unlatch, unleavened, unlimited, unlock, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unobscured, unobstructed, unowing, unplug, unprevented, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning, unravel, unrelieved, unreserved, unrestricted, unroll, unscarred, unscramble, unseal, unsheathe, unshut, unsnarl, unsophisticated,
unstop, unstopped, unstuck, untangle, untie, untied, untinged, untouched by evil,
untrammeled,
untwine, unveil, unwaivable, unwavering, unwrap, updive, upleap, upspring, utter, utterly, vacant, vacuous, vault, vent, veritable, vigorous, vindicate, visible, vivid, void, warrant, weed out, well-defined,
well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, white, whitewash, whole, wholesale, wholly, wide, wide-open, win, winnow, with clean hands, with
nothing inside, withdraw, withdraw the charge,
without content, without exception, without reproach, without
reserve, worry
along