OriginFrom Latin nitidus.
- 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 Di”
“mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...”
- obsoleteFestively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.
“yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!”
“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.”
Formsmore nitid(comparative) · most nitid(superlative)