What's the difference between laconic and lucid?

Laconic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Laconical
  • (n.) Laconism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parties seek a sharper definition and a clearer purpose: voters rightly demand a reason to rule beyond Cameron’s laconic “because I thought I’d be good at it”.
  • (2) Just over two years later, Harvey, a 29-year-old with a laconic line in humour, can look back on it and joke about it.
  • (3) Miles, who spoke laconically and without passion, recommended that the tubes remain in place for several weeks at a stretch to minimize risk to a detainee.
  • (4) The author has revealed a classification based on systematization of most frequently observed pathology, that allows a laconic functional and topical diagnosis and provides phlebological patients with individualized treatment.
  • (5) As Clarke Reed, the former chair of the Mississippi Republican party who played a key role in the last contested convention in 1976, told the Guardian far more laconically, a contested convention this year is “likely to lead to all kinds of games being played”.
  • (6) Wittgenstein's reply is said to have been the laconic but absurdly cheerful: "Great!
  • (7) Spoofing the popular media that lamented the loss of a "great statesman", the weekly's headline laconically read: "Tragic ball at Colombey, one dead".
  • (8) You must have known,” Price says – laconic, nasal, one leg casually hitched up on the bench, endlessly jingling coins in his pocket – “that to give a senior public figure an arrest warning could lead to a complaint direct to the commissioner’s office.” Do you not see how important Mr Mitchell is?
  • (9) Kean dismissed the gesture with a laconic: "I didn't notice it."
  • (10) "We've all read the same spy novels," one said laconically.
  • (11) Mackenzie flew to Brazil this week as Ferreira came under increasing fire from local authorities, residents and media for what many saw as a laconic response to one of the South American nation’s worst mining disasters.
  • (12) Greater dementia severity in the SRD subjects was associated with laconic speech that was syntactially less complex.
  • (13) Probably not a good idea,” says a suitably laconic Chris Pratt in the trailer, which probably tells you everything you need to know here.
  • (14) Downing Street clarified the statement by laconically pointing out that "it's hardly surprising that UKTI DSO are seeking to promote defence exports – that's their job".
  • (15) At one point, Focus revealedon Monday, he had asked laconically why the police couldn't have waited until he was dead.
  • (16) Don’t expect a wild change of tack from Cohen, who turns 80 the day before the album comes out – Popular Problems is as laconic and gravelly as ever.
  • (17) From the start he was academically brilliant, in his off-beat and laconically concise way.
  • (18) At the end of a drive to Yucca, Arizona, 200 miles south-east of Vegas, we swung through the ranch gate and climbed out to a laconic “Howdy” from a cowpoke who introduced himself as Tex, the head wrangler.
  • (19) Official coverage in Russia of Novodvorskaya's passing has been muted, and President Putin's office issued a laconic statement .
  • (20) The problem with Dave is he’s so laconic, which I discovered recently is a posh person’s way of calling someone bone idle.

Lucid


Definition:

  • (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
  • (n.) Clear; transparent.
  • (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
  • (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After sulfentanil analgesia the patients were more rapidly awake and lucid, than after fentanyl-analgesia.
  • (2) Further reductions in psychotropic medications and the addition of the anticonvulsant medication resulted in continued rapid deceleration of rate of occurrence of maladaptive behaviours with a concomitant increase in lucid statements and independent functioning.
  • (3) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
  • (4) The mortality related to deficits following a lucid interval was 44 per cent, whereas the mortality of immediate deficit was 13 per cent.
  • (5) (3) Some patients go into delirium after being lucid for as long as a week and have hallucinations, illusions, and motor excitation for a few days-or over several weeks.
  • (6) In contrast, the mechanism of injury, the verbal Glasgow Coma Scale score during the lucid interval, and the length of time until deterioration or until operative intervention did not influence the final result.
  • (7) While still a close run thing, the statistics now appear to favour the back foot.” His non-cricket explanation did little to increase the speech’s lucidity average.
  • (8) After 45 minutes, Ethiopia's troubles had slipped away and a sense of wellbeing, alertness, euphoria and lucidity took over.
  • (9) He gave a lucid and thoroughly depressing talk on "China's Role in the Global Climate Game," describing a number of unpleasant options China, the United States, and the rest of the world will have to face in dealing with climate changes already underway.
  • (10) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
  • (11) In the technically complex world of F1 his triumph can be explained in the most lucid of terms: he was faster than his most serious rival, his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg.
  • (12) The patient emerged from anesthesia comfortable and lucid and experienced no perioperative anesthetic complications.
  • (13) The majority of particles visualized by immune electron microscopy had electrondense appearance, while electron-lucid particles were only occasionally encountered.
  • (14) A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
  • (15) The study of a series of brains from patients who had a severe head injury and died within 72 h without a lucid interval showed that there was a step-wise progression in the development of retraction balls.
  • (16) When I went up to the spot I was pretty lucid, as much as one can be in that kind of situation.
  • (17) Ed Miliband's greatest strength – more than either his undoubted intellect or obvious lucidity – is the courage of his conviction.
  • (18) The detection of skull fracture or of a lucid interval was not prognostically useful.
  • (19) The patient's age, the course of consciousness before operation (whether there was a lucid interval), and the clot location did not correlate with the final outcome.
  • (20) Nurses interact significantly less with confused than lucid patients.