The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well).nicelynice‧ly /ˈnaɪsli/ ●●○ S3 adverb 
He was handsome and nicely dressed. The table fits in nicely with the rest of the furniture. The wound healed up nicely. The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well).2in a pleasant/friendly way in a pleasant, polite, or friendly way: I’m sure he’ll help if you ask him nicely.3be doing nicely British English to be successful and be earning a lot of money: The business is doing quite nicely. Ed’s doing very nicely for himself out in Japan.4that will do nicely British English spoken used when saying that something is very suitable and is just what you want: ‘Will cheese sandwiches be okay?’ ‘Yes, that’ll do nicely.’5exactly formal exactly or carefully: a nicely calculated distance
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Ann dresses her children nicely.
- Each new water molecule fits nicely into a space on the ice surface.
- His arm is healing nicely.
- If you ask Daddy nicely, I'm sure he'll give you some.
- Turn the fillets and cook until nicely browned, 2 to 3 minutes longer.
- Even these should fit nicely if you did your planning carefully.
- His assistants were keeping up with it nicely.
- The airy, delicate fronds contrast nicely with the rough, heavy rocks.
- The apartment was big, spacious, and nicely furnished.
- The cover shot nicely evokes the bewilderment felt when climbing in Ordesa.
- The government says farmers are doing nicely, thank you, and that savings in agricultural cooperatives are rising.
- The importance of the calls was demonstrated nicely by Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well). Ed’s doing very nicely for himself out in Japan.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well). Ed’s doing very nicely for himself out in Japan.· All they had to do was ask nicely.
· His walk was nicely balanced, arms swinging loosely.· This delicious braised duck dish is nicely balanced by the slight sweetness and tartness of the fruit.· In general terms, it was nicely balanced.
· Turn and continue cooking until nicely browned, 2 to 3 minutes.· Place quail on rack in roasting pan and roast until nicely browned, about 9 to 10 minutes.
· The log transformation was found to fit nicely at the zero position on the ladder of powers.· I bought a cloche, which is a domed clay oven that fits nicely into any regular oven.· Even these should fit nicely if you did your planning carefully.
· Helen, neutrally listening, anaesthetised by her state of uplift, thought that they nicely illustrated the condition of the place.· The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners' strike of 1984-85.· Some of those differences are nicely illustrated.· The problems of criterion validity nicely illustrate the difficulty of finding any solid foundation on which to construct a psychometric measure.· Jane Smith's murine cries were nicely illustrated by way of their electronic imitation.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► that will do nicely
1well in a satisfactory, pleasant, or attractive way: - Hockey is doing nicely by itself without FoxTrax.
- The government says farmers are doing nicely, thank you, and that savings in agricultural cooperatives are rising.
- Your boyfriend said to say he was sorry he had missed you, and he'd be writing and was doing nicely.
He was handsome and nicely dressed. The table fits in nicely with the rest of the furniture. The wound healed up nicely. The garden’s coming along very nicely now (=it is growing well).2in a pleasant/friendly way in a pleasant, polite, or friendly way: I’m sure he’ll help if you ask him nicely.3be doing nicely British English to be successful and be earning a lot of money: The business is doing quite nicely. Ed’s doing very nicely for himself out in Japan.4that will do nicely British English spoken used when saying that something is very suitable and is just what you want: ‘Will cheese sandwiches be okay?’ ‘Yes, that’ll do nicely.’5exactly formal exactly or carefully: a nicely calculated distance