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Nice   /naɪs/  /nis/   Listen
Nice

adjective
(compar. nicer; superl. nicest)
1.
Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.  "Nice manners" , "A nice dress" , "A nice face" , "A nice day" , "Had a nice time at the party" , "The corn and tomatoes are nice today"
2.
Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous.  Synonym: decent.  "A nice girl"
3.
Done with delicacy and skill.  Synonym: skillful.  "A job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer" , "A nice shot"
4.
Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.  Synonyms: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish.  "So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
5.
Exhibiting courtesy and politeness.  Synonyms: courteous, gracious.
noun
1.
A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera.



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"Nice" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fenton, a nice but poor young man asks for the hand of Miss Anna Reich. But her father has already chosen a richer suitor for his daughter in the person of silly ...
— The Standard Operaglass - Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas • Charles Annesley
... bed that evening at her usual hour, but Jan felt too troubled to sleep. Seated in his corner, he could see how Glory Goldie was suffering. That which she had under her was too rough and coarse. He sat thinking how nice it would be if he could only make up a bed for the little girl that would feel cool and ...
— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof
... rest, all of which, it is perhaps needless to note, belong to those "dismal dark subjects, neither entertaining nor ornamental," against which we have already heard the painter inveigh. Upon the ceiling, with a nice sense of decorative fitness, is Pharaoh in the Red Sea. From a sconce at the side, a Gorgon surveys the proceedings with astonishment. Hogarth has used a similar idea in the Strolling Actresses, where the same mask seems horrified at the airy ...
— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton
... quizzically, and was satisfied with her scrutiny. "You're a man of sense," she replied brusquely, and gathered up her skirts. "Find me a horse or a donkey, and I'll go too," she added whimsically. "Patriotism is such a nice sentiment." ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... ago, and took the body in my light wagon up the side of a mountain to the place of burial. They found a crevice in the rocks about four feet wide and three feet deep. By filling in loose rocks at either end they made a very nice tomb. The body was then put in face downwards, short sticks were put across, resting on projections of rock at the sides, brush was thrown on this, and flat rocks laid over ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow


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