nitid

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Roborant (tending to fortify) and nitid (bright; glistening) failed to shine; they finished last, drawing roughly 550 votes between them.

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  1. Bright; lustrous; shining. [Rare.] We restore old pieces of dirty gold to a clean and nitid yellow. Boyle, Works, I. 685.
  2. Gay; spruce; fine: applied to persons. [Rare.]
  3. In bot, having a smooth, shining, polished surface, as many leaves and seeds.

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  • Roborant (tending to fortify) and nitid (bright; glistening) failed to shine; they finished last, drawing roughly 550 votes between them. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • 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. —  A Gentleman's C
  • Philalethes, in his _Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby_, seems to feel some pity for his readers; after describing what he calls "the generic homogeneous water of gold," he says: "If you wish for a more particular description of our water, I am impelled by motives of charity to tell you that it is living, flexible, clear, nitid, white as snow, hot, humid, airy, vaporous, and digestive." —  The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
 

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  1. = Spanish nítido = Portuguese Italian nitido, from Latin nitidus, shining, bright, from nitere, shine. Cf. neat and net, ult. from Latin nitidus.
 

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