nice (naɪs
)
Definitions
adjective
- pleasant or commendable ⇒
a nice day
- kind or friendly ⇒
a nice gesture of help
- good or satisfactory ⇒
they made a nice job of it
- subtle, delicate, or discriminating ⇒
a nice point in the argument
- precise; skilful ⇒
a nice fit
- rare fastidious; respectable ⇒
he was not too nice about his methods
- obsolete
- foolish or ignorant
- delicate
- shy; modest
- wanton
- See nice and
Alternative Forms
ˈnicely adverb ˈniceness noun ˈnicish adjectiveWord Origin
C13 (originally: foolish): from Old French nice simple, silly, from Latin nescius ignorant, from nescīre to be ignorant; see nescienceSynonyms
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precise,
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Nice (French nis)
Definitions
noun
- a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: a leading resort of the French Riviera; founded by Phocaeans from Marseille in about the 3rd century bc. Pop: 342 738 (1999)
NICE (naɪs)
Definitions
noun acronym for
- (in Britain) National Institute for Clinical Excellence: a body established in 1999 to provide authoritative guidance on current best practice in medicine and to promote high-quality cost-effective medical treatment in the NHS
- non-inflationary consistent expansion: a period of steady economic growth and low inflation
Translations
- British English:
nice
If something is nice, you like it.They live in a really nice house.naɪs ADJECTIVE They live in a really nice house.
- Spanish:
amable
adj
- French:
agréable
adj
- German:
nett
adj
- Chinese: 美好的 adj
- Arabic: لَطِيفٌ adj
- Portuguese: agradável adj
- Russian: приятный adj приятная
- Croatian: ugodan adj ugoda
- Czech: příjemný adj
- Danish: rar adj
- Dutch: aardig adj
- Finnish: mukava adj
- Greek: συμπαθητικός adj συμπαθητική
- Italian: gradevole adj
- Japanese: すてきな no_posp
- Korean: 좋은 adj
- Norwegian: hyggelig adj
- Polish: miły adj miła
- Brazilian Portuguese: legal adj
- European Spanish:
amable
adj
- Swedish: trevlig adj trevligt
- Thai: ดี adj
- Turkish: hoş adj
- Vietnamese: dễ chịu adj
Usage examples
No, we mended all our fences and she even started being nice about my books.
, CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD (2001)It was a fabulous event with a very nice gentlemanly attitude among world class yachtsmen," commented Robin.
Yachting Boating World (2004)Which means, if women want to get on, they have to be less nice , less touchy-feely and less empathic.
Irish Times (2002)Talking of which, the west of Scotland customer is far too nice.
Glasgow Herald (2001)One's behaviour didn't promote shame, or indeed guilt either, which was nice.
, BEYOND FEAR (2002)