crystal clearly

English

Adverb

crystal clearly (comparative more crystal clearly, superlative most crystal clearly)

1. In a crystal clear manner.

   Synonym: crystally clear

   • 2009, Kevin Glavin, “The Kali Club”, in Rock Star’s Rainbow, Irvine, Calif.: Kevin Glavin Publishing, →ISBN, pages 311–312:

     And then Rook snapped out of it and noticed (in this strange state he was in—an aftereffect of the soma?) as clear as day everything—almost as if a sixth sense had become acute and he was fully aware of his eminent and imminent death and he saw everything crystal clearly and noticed that Anatoli, usually calm as a cucumber on the set, was now sweating and not calm and perhaps claustrophobic?

   • 2015, Gina Ciocca, chapter 30, in Last Year’s Mistake, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 288:

     Sitting in my car, bereft and broken, I saw everything crystal clearly. I’d hurt them both. And now I’d lost them both.

   • 2017, Joshua Spodek, “Feedforward”, in Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow, New York, N.Y.: Amacom Books, →ISBN, unit 2 (Leading Yourself), page 115:

     (I can’t help note that one of her pieces of advice was for me to tell her, “You would look better than her in that outfit,” which contradicted her telling me that she didn’t like being compared. She did like favorable comparisons, so it’s not like she was communicating crystal clearly either.)