nitid
adjEtymology From Latin nitidus.
1
Bright; lustrous; shining.
- 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.1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours:
- mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...1864, Francis P. Pascoe, “Longicornia Malayana”, in Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Third Series, Vol. III:
2
Obsolete, Of a person Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.
- yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh:
- 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.1852, anonymous author, “Memoirs of a Man of the World”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXXI:
- Derived terms
- nitidity