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English adjective: nice | |||
| 1. | nice pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance | ||
| Samples | What a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty. 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. | ||
| Similar | good, pleasant | ||
| See also | pleasant | ||
| Attribute | niceness | ||
| Antonyms | nasty, awful | ||
| 2. | nice socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | ||
| Samples | From a decent family. A nice girl. | ||
| Synonyms | decent | ||
| Similar | respectable | ||
| Antonyms | unrespectable | ||
| 3. | nice done with delicacy and skill | ||
| Samples | A nice bit of craft. A job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer. A nice shot. | ||
| Synonyms | skillful | ||
| Similar | precise | ||
| Antonyms | imprecise | ||
| 4. | nice excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | ||
| Samples | Too nice about his food to take to camp cooking. So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow. | ||
| Synonyms | dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish | ||
| Similar | fastidious | ||
| Antonyms | unfastidious | ||
| 5. | nice exhibiting courtesy and politeness | ||
| Samples | A nice gesture. | ||
| Synonyms | courteous, gracious | ||
| Similar | polite | ||
| Antonyms | impolite | ||
English noun: Nice | |||
| 1. | Nice (location) a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera | ||
| Instance hypernym | city, metropolis, urban center | ||
| Part meronym | France, French Republic | ||
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