nice 
nice (nīs)
adjective nic′er, nic′·est
- difficult to please; fastidious; refined
- delicate; precise; discriminative; subtle a nice distinction
- calling for great care, accuracy, tact, etc., as in handling or discrimination a nice problem
- able to make fine or delicate distinctions; delicately skillful; finely discriminating
- minutely accurate, as an instrument
- having high standards of conduct; scrupulous
- agreeable; pleasant; delightful
- attractive; pretty
- courteous and considerate
- conforming to approved social standards; respectable
- in good taste
- good; excellent
- Obsolete
- ignorant; foolish
- wanton
- coy; shy
Etymology: ME, strange, lazy, foolish < OFr nice, nisce, stupid, foolish < L nescius, ignorant, not knowing < nescire, to be ignorant < ne-, not (see no) + scire, to know: see science
adverb nic′er, nic′·est
well, pleasingly, attractively, etc.: variously regarded as substandard, dialectal, or informal
make nice
Informal to try to be friendly or cooperative: often with with
nice and
Informal altogether, in a pleasing way likes his tea nice and hot
Nice (nēs)
seaport & resort in SE France: pop. 342,000
nice
modif.
Approved
likable, superior, admirable; see excellent.Behaving in a becoming manner
pleasing, friendly, agreeable, winning, winsome, prepossessing, refined, cultured, amiable, delightful, charming, inviting, pleasant, cordial, courteous, ingratiating, considerate, kind, kindly, helpful, gracious, obliging, genial, gentle, simpático (Spanish), seemly, decorous, becoming, unassuming, unpresumptuous, modest, demure; see also friendly 1.Antonyms
rude*, indecorous, crude. Involving a careful distinction
delicate, minute, exacting, fastidious, finicky, finical, finicking, discerning, discriminating, fine, subtle, careful, precise, critical, distinguishing, trivial, hairsplitting; see also careful, detailed, particular 3.Antonyms
careless*, broad, sweeping. Accurate
correct, exact, right; see accurate 1. See syn. study at particular.
Modifying Another Word
- really: Some suggestions: do a really nice deed for your partner like, drawing a warm bath or cooking a nice meal.
- very: Her voice was very nice, really suitable for the role.
- rather: The building has a verandah from which one imagines, is a rather nice elevated view of the action below.
- quite: Some IMAGES of Dorset here - quite nice ones.
Infinitive complement
- hear: It would be nice to hear from anyone who was in my year.
- see: Nice to see her taking an interest in anything actually.
- know: It would have been nice to know which fears of mine weren't really there.
- meet: Four Gigs in April, nice to meet up with some familiar faces along the way.
- think: Would be nice to think it is a ministry, as you wonder.
- sit: Rather nice to just sit down in a corner and drink tea quietly.
Modifies a noun
- guy: I'm a nice guy - I'm going to heaven, right?
- touch: A nice touch in this song is a very sixties style keyboard sound which, in style, is like The Doors.
- bloke: They're nice enough blokes but a bit serious for our liking.
- chap: The band plus the disco were great and such nice chaps.
- cup: His targets is to finish with a smile, have a nice cup of hot sweet tea and a long soak in the bath!
- surprise: A nice surprise for the closing song rescues the second half.
Used with adjective complement
- look: Dawn, your holiday home looks really nice, it will be nice to have somewhere to escape to for weekends away.
- taste: This site is not about healthy food - it is about veggie food that tastes nice.
- seem: The country seems quite nice, not very hilly, but plenty of small woods.
- sound: John: It sounds nice starting like that anyway.
All the nice people were poor; at least, that was a general axiom, the best of the rich being poor in spirit.
Sempre que os homens sabidos lhe diziam palavras dif|¤ceis, ele sa|¤a logrado. Sobressaltava-se escutando-as. Evidentemente so¤ serviam para encobrir ladroeiras. Mas eram bonitas. Whenever men with book learning used big words in dealing with him, he came out the loser. It startled him just to hear those words.Obviously they were just a cover for robbery. But they sounded nice.
A change is always nice.
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right I want it that way.
There was a lad was born in Kyle, But what na day o' what na style. I doubt it's hardly worth the while To be sae nice wi' Robin.
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are.You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
A nice girl should only fall in love once in her life.
Nice guys finish last.
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there.You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Porque, s |¤ , fuera de la celda esta¤ n nuestros opresores, pero adentro no. Aqu |¤ nadie oprime a nadie. Lo u¤ nico que hay, de perturbador, para mi mentecansada, o condicionada o deformadaes que alguien me quiere tratar bien, sin pedir nada a cambio. Because, well, outside of this cell we may have our oppressors, yes, but not inside.Here no one oppresses the other. The only thing that seems to disturb me because I'm exhausted, or conditioned, or pervertedis that someone wants to be nice to me, without asking anything back for it.
Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
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