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English
Etymology
From Latin nitidus.
Adjective
nitid (comparative more nitid, superlative most nitid)
- Bright; lustrous; shining.
- Synonym: (obsolete, rare) nitty
1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours:Thus we restore Old pieces of Dirty Gold to a clean and nitid Yellow, by putting them into the Fire, and into Aqua-fortis, which take off the adventitious Filth that made that pure Metall look of a Dirty Colour.
1864, Francis P. Pascoe, “Longicornia Malayana”, in Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Third Series, Vol. III:mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...
- (obsolete, of a person) Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.
1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh:yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!
1852, anonymous author, “Memoirs of a Man of the World”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXXI:My sable friend, for he was an eccclesiastic, was, however, not nitid as usual. There was a looseness of trousers, and a sloppiness of shoe, that savoured no longer of St. James's-street.
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