Nice Definition

nīs
nicer, nicest
adjective
nicer, nicest
Ignorant; foolish.
Webster's New World
Exhibiting courtesy and politeness.
A nice gesture.
American Heritage
Difficult to please; fastidious; refined; scrupulous.
Webster's New World
Agreeable; pleasant; delightful.
Webster's New World
Delicate; precise; discriminative; subtle.
A nice distinction.
Webster's New World
adverb
Well, pleasingly, attractively, etc.
Webster's New World

(colloquial) Nicely.

Children, play nice.
He dresses real nice.
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pronoun

A city in southeast France on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, capital of the department of Alpes-Maritimes.

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Nice (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/) is also a family name found in the United Kingdom, U.S.A., and other western countries.
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interjection

Used to signify a job well done.

Nice! I couldn't have done better.
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Used to signify approval.
Is that your new car? Nice!
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verb

(computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

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idiom
make nice
  • to try to be friendly or cooperative
Webster's New World
nice and
  • altogether, in a pleasing way

    likes his tea nice and hot

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Nice

Adjective

Base Form:
nice
Comparative:
nicer
Superlative:
nicest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Nice

Origin of Nice

  • From Middle English nice, nyce, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant"), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing"); compare nescire (“to know not, be ignorant of"), from ne (“not") + scire (“to know").

    From Wiktionary

  • Name of a Unix program used to invoke a script or program with a specified priority, with the implication that running at a lower priority is "nice" (kind, etc.) because it leaves more resources for others.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English foolish from Old French from Latin nescius ignorant from nescīre to be ignorant nescience

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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