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

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adverb

Well, pleasingly, attractively, etc.

Webster's New World

(colloquial) Nicely.

Children, play nice.

He dresses real nice.

Wiktionary

pronoun

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

Wiktionary

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