nitid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ..."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin niteō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin nitidus English nitid From Latin nitidus.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more nitid (comparative)
most nitid (superlative)