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- 1 Pleasant, satisfactory. informal
"You weren’t nice to me this morning."
- 2 Of a person: friendly, attractive. informal
"Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye."
- 3 Respectable; virtuous.
"What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?"
- 4 Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. informal
"The soup is nice and hot."
- 5 Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression. informal
"For Candy Crush Saga, the critics were far nicer than the audience (7.9/10 vs. 3.1/10)."
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- 6 Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly informal
"a nice way of putting it"
- 7 Silly, ignorant; foolish. obsolete
"Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions."
- 8 Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy. archaic
"There is nothing he seemed to be more carefull of than of his honesty, and observe a kinde of decencie of his person, and orderly decorum in his habits, were it on foot or on horsebacke. He was exceeding nice in performing his word or promise."
- 9 Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious. dated
"Choice, nice in eating; fastidiosus in edendo."
- 10 Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict. obsolete
"“Well, my dear,” he deliberately began, “considering we never saw her before, she seems a very pretty sort of young lady; and I dare say she was very much pleased with you. She speaks a little too quick. A little quickness of voice there is which rather hurts the ear. But I believe I am nice; I do not like strange voices; and nobody speaks like you and poor Miss Taylor. ...""
- 11 Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
""It's her own funeral, you know," said Sir Lulworth; "it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains.""
- 12 Easily injured; delicate; dainty. obsolete
- 13 Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky. obsolete
"[W]ere it good / To ſet the exact wealth of al our ſtates / Al at one caſt? to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre?"
- 1 exhibiting courtesy and politeness wordnet
- 2 excessively fastidious and easily disgusted wordnet
- 3 pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance wordnet
- 4 done with delicacy and skill wordnet
- 5 socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous wordnet
- 1 Nicely. colloquial
"Children, play nice."
- 1 Used to signify a job well done.
"Nice! I couldn't have done better."
- 2 Used to signify approval.
"Is that your new car? Nice!"
- 1 A coastal city, the capital of Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeast France.
"The Nice prosecutor’s office told CNN that an investigation has been opened into his death and an autopsy ordered. So far, authorities have not announced any charges related to Pormanove’s death."
- 2 Acronym of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 3 A surname. (pronounced /ni:s/ or /naɪs/)
- 4 A census-designated place in Lake County, California, United States.
- 1 niceness. uncountable
"She had refused as kindly as she know how, using up as much nice as she had energy for because she was glad of his company when three o'clock rolled around and she started thinking about September."
- 1 To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. Unix, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
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.
Borrowed from French Nice, from Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia), named for a 4th-century-BCE victory of its colonizing Phocaean Greeks over local Ligurians, probably the Vediantii, from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-ia: forming place names”). Doublet of Iznik and Nicaea.
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