nice

1. 1

   Pleasant, satisfactory, complimentary.informal

   • When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
   • What's difficult is when you think someone is saying something nice about you, but you're not quite sure.
2. 2

   Of a person: friendly, attractive.informal

   • You weren’t nice to me this morning.
3. 3

   Respectable; virtuous.

   • What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?
4. 4

   Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.informal

   • The soup is nice and hot.
5. 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).
6. 6

   Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemlyinformal

   • a nice way of putting it
7. 7

   Silly, ignorant; foolish.obsolete

   • Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.
8. 8

   Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.archaic

   • Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.
   • But if I dispense with the dreams of neurotics, my main material, I cannot be too nice [translating wählerisch] in my dealings with the remainder.
9. 9

   Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.dated

   • Choice, nice in eating; fastidiosus in edendo.
10. 10

    Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.obsolete

    • "Good company requires only birth, education and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential."

syn. delightful · friendly · kind · lovely · pleasant · sweet

ant. horrible · horrid · nasty · awful · disgusting · foul · nauseating · putrid

1. 1

   Nicely.colloquial

   • Children, play nice.
   • He dresses real nice.

1. 1

   Used to signify a job well done.

   • Nice! I couldn't have done better.
2. 2

   Used to signify approval.

   • Is that your new car? Nice!

1. 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.
   • We could debate forever about whether we have enough of one or too much of another. But I know one thing for sure: We never have too much nice.

1. 1

   To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.Unixtransitive