Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bright; lustrous; shining.
- Gay; spruce; fine: applied to persons.
- In bot, having a smooth, shining, polished surface, as many leaves and seeds.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Bright; lustrous; shining.
- adj. rare Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. bright with a steady but subdued shining
Etymologies
- From Latin nitidus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The song boasts a nitid, fun beat, but when asked about its dark lyrics such as, I let them pick my brain, twist my arm, cut my throat and wish me dead ... but I'm still thinking ...,”
The Huffington Post: Felice Arenas: Ono Offers Lennon's 'Truth' to New Generation
“Roborant (tending to fortify) and nitid (bright; glistening) failed to shine; they finished last, drawing roughly 550 votes between them.”
“At its heart, this attitude embrangles the concepts of "need" and "want"; those fubsy fuddy-duddies with griseous imaginations believe that words no longer in frequent use will never in the future be needed by English speakers and writers more nitid than themselves.”
“Therefore, I vaticinate that when these fubsy, olid, griseous beards reach caducity and exuviate their mortal coils, the skirr of nitid angel’s wings will not be heard.”
“8C.ROEC.HIUS bene de literis hiftoricis t quod Offerhaufii compendium in Gennania \ auélore confdo, non folum accurate et nitid» fedt, fed etiam hiiloriam faeculi a C. N.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nitid’.
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phrontistery - n
from phrontistery.info
nacarat, nacelle, nacket, nacre, nacreous, naevus, naiant, nail, nainsook, naissant, nanism, nanization and 340 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Wordwild's Delights
Delightful words to read and use
plangent, ribald, titubant, sidereal, pelagic, improvident, dolorous, parlous, baleful, precatory, pied, mephitic and 247 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Vivid vocabulary
saturnine, frisson, sopor, petrichor, crucible, paroxysm, xenium, lagniappe, soubrette, clyster, tarassis, imbroglio and 47 more...
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Shining or Bright
Nouns meaning shining or bright
effulgent, resplendent, splendid, luminous, brilliant, radiant, lustrous, glowing, illuminating, gleaming, fulgent, fulgid and 4 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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The Collins death row
Times Online: 'Dictionary compilers at Collins have decided that the word list for the forthcoming edition of its largest volume is embrangled with words so obscure that they are linguistic recreme...
abstergent, agrestic, apodeictic, caducity, caliginosity, compossible, embrangle, exuviate, fatidical, fubsy, griseous, malison and 12 more...
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LovedWords
lickerish, casuistry, nitid, sacrosanct, discombobulate, abscond, stochasticity, obfuscate, verisimilitude, pendulous, acquiesce, plethora and 41 more...
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