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nice
1[ nahys ]
adjective
- pleasing; agreeable; delightful:
a nice visit.
Antonyms: unpleasant
- amiably pleasant; kind:
They are always nice to strangers.
Synonyms: friendly
Antonyms: unkind
- characterized by, showing, or requiring great accuracy, precision, skill, tact, care, or delicacy:
nice workmanship; a nice shot; a nice handling of a crisis.
Synonyms: particular, discerning, discriminating, scrupulous, critical, exacting, exact, delicate
Antonyms: careless
- showing or indicating very small differences; minutely accurate, as instruments:
a job that requires nice measurements.
- minute, fine, or subtle:
a nice distinction.
- having or showing delicate, accurate perception:
a nice sense of color.
- refined in manners, language, etc.:
Nice people wouldn't do such things.
Synonyms: polite
a nice girl.
- suitable or proper:
That was not a nice remark.
Antonyms: improper
- carefully neat in dress, habits, etc.
- (especially of food) dainty or delicate.
- having fastidious, finicky, or fussy tastes:
They're much too nice in their dining habits to enjoy an outdoor barbecue.
- Obsolete. coy, shy, or reluctant.
- Obsolete. unimportant; trivial.
- Obsolete. wanton.
Nice
2[ nees ]
noun
- a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in southeastern France, on the Mediterranean: known as a vacation resort.
NICE
1/ naɪs /
acronym for
- (in Britain) National Institute for Clinical Excellence: a body established in 1999 to provide authoritative guidance on current best practice in medicine and to promote high-quality cost-effective medical treatment in the NHS
Nice
2/ nis /
noun
- a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: a leading resort of the French Riviera; founded by Phocaeans from Marseille in about the 3rd century bc . Pop: 342 738 (1999)
nice
3/ naɪs /
adjective
- pleasant or commendable
a nice day
- kind or friendly
a nice gesture of help
- good or satisfactory
they made a nice job of it
- subtle, delicate, or discriminating
a nice point in the argument
- precise; skilful
a nice fit
- rare.fastidious; respectable
he was not too nice about his methods
- obsolete.
- foolish or ignorant
- delicate
- shy; modest
- wanton
- nice andpleasingly
it's nice and cool
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Notes
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Derived Forms
- ˈniceness, noun
- ˈnicish, adjective
- ˈnicely, adverb
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Other Words From
- nicely adverb
- niceness noun
- over·nice adjective
- over·nicely adverb
- over·niceness noun
- un·nice adjective
- un·nicely adverb
- un·niceness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nice1
Origin of nice2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nice1
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Idioms and Phrases
- make nice, to behave in a friendly, ingratiating, or conciliatory manner.
- nice and, sufficiently:
It's nice and warm in here.
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Example Sentences
From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.
Another beautiful Eminor number, with a nice shift up to the major for the chorus.
Champagne, which is also acidic, offers a nice complement to anything from tuna tartare to beef bourguignon.
And there are a few nice things buried beneath the rubble that I could use in my apartment.
It was also nice to have a place where my family and friends could see what was going on in my life.
There is more of artfulness in the flatteries which appear to involve a calculating intention to say the nice agreeable thing.
I don't care, it ain't nice, and I wonder aunt brought us to such a place.
And right after that, some nice sour milk would come splashing down into the trough of the pen.
The boy backed away from him, and stood a little distance off, holding out a nice, juicy potato this time.
"I don't think that is a very nice taste," said Davy, beginning to feel very uneasy.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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