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nice /nīs/ adjective- Agreeable, delightful, respectable, good in any way, satisfactory (often used as a vague commendation)
- (of a person) good-natured, friendly, kind
- Bad, badly done, careless (ironic)
- Forming or observing very small differences
- Calling for very fine discrimination
- Done with great care and exactness, accurate
- Delicate
- Dainty
- Fastidious
- Hard to please
- Over-particular
- Foolishly simple (obsolete)
- Wanton (Shakespeare)
- Coy (Milton)
- Critical, hazardous (archaic)
- Easily injured (obsolete)
ORIGIN: OFr nice foolish, simple, from L nescius ignorant, from ne not, and scīre to know niceˈish or nicˈish adjective Somewhat nice niceˈly adverb niceˈness noun The quality of being nice nicety /nīsˈi-ti/ noun - Critical subtlety
- A matter of delicate discrimination or adjustment
- The quality of being nice
- Degree of precision
- Fineness of perception or feeling
- Exactness of treatment
- Delicate management
- A refinement (often in pl)
- Fastidiousness
- A delicacy
- Coyness (Spenser and Shakespeare)
nicish see niceish above nice and (used almost adverbially) commendably, pleasantly to a nicety With great exactness |