NITID

agleam, gleaming, nitid

(adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining; “from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights”; “the gleaming brass on the altar”; “Nereids beneath the nitid moon”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

nitid (comparative more nitid, superlative most nitid)

Bright; lustrous; shining.

Synonym: nitty (obsolete, rare)

(obsolete, of a, person) Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.

Anagrams

• Tindi, ditin

Source: Wiktionary


Nit"id, a. Etym: [L. nitidus, fr. nitere. See 3d Neat.]

1. Bright; lustrous; shining. [R.] Boyle.

2. Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons. [R.] T. Reeve.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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