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Nice

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Noun

1. nice

a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

Adjective

2. nice

pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance

Example Sentences:
'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'

3. decent, nice

socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous

Example Sentences:
'from a decent family'
'a nice girl'

4. nice, skillful

done with delicacy and skill

Example Sentences:
'a nice bit of craft'
'a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer'
'a nice shot'

5. dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

Example Sentences:
'too nice about his food to take to camp cooking'
'so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow'

6. courteous, gracious, nice

exhibiting courtesy and politeness

Example Sentences:
'a nice gesture'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Nice

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adjective
1. 
pleasant or commendable
a nice day
2. 
kind or friendly
a nice gesture of help
3. 
good or satisfactory
they made a nice job of it
4. 
subtle, delicate, or discriminating
a nice point in the argument
5. 
precise; skilful
a nice fit
6. rare
fastidious; respectable
he was not too nice about his methods
7. obsolete
a. 
foolish or ignorant
b. 
delicate
c. 
shy; modest
d. 
wanton
8.  nice and
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: 348 721 (2007)
noun acronym for
1. 
(in England and Wales) National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: a body that provides guidance on best practice in medicine and treatments in the NHS
2. 
non-inflationary consistent expansion: a period of steady economic growth and low inflation

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Nice

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seaport & resort in SE France: pop. 342,000
adjectiveWord forms: ˈnicer or ˈnicest
1. 
difficult to please; fastidious; refined
2. 
delicate; precise; discriminative; subtle
a nice distinction
3. 
calling for great care, accuracy, tact, etc., as in handling or discrimination
a nice problem
4. 
a. 
able to make fine or delicate distinctions; delicately skillful; finely discriminating
b. 
minutely accurate, as an instrument
5. 
having high standards of conduct; scrupulous
6.  a generalized term of approval meaning variously:
a. 
agreeable; pleasant; delightful
b. 
attractive; pretty
c. 
courteous and considerate
d. 
conforming to approved social standards; respectable
e. 
in good taste
f. 
good; excellent
7.  Obsolete
a. 
ignorant; foolish
b. 
wanton
c. 
coy; shy
adverbWord forms: ˈnicer or ˈnicest
8. 
well, pleasingly, attractively, etc.
variously regarded as substandard, dialectal, or informal

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Nice

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A city of southeast France on the Mediterranean Sea northeast of Cannes. Controlled by various royal houses after the 1200s, the city was finally ceded to France in 1860. It is the leading resort city of the French Riviera.
adj. nic·er, nic·est
1. Pleasing and agreeable in nature: had a nice time; a nice person.
2. Having a pleasant or attractive appearance: a nice dress; a nice face.
3. Exhibiting courtesy and politeness: a nice gesture.
4. Of good character and reputation; respectable.
5. Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy.
6. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle: a nice distinction; a nice sense of style.
7. Done with delicacy and skill: a nice bit of craft.
8. Used as an intensive with and: nice and warm.
9. Obsolete
a. Wanton; profligate: "For when mine hours / Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives / Of me for jests" (Shakespeare).
b. Affectedly modest; coy: "Ere ... / The nice Morn on th' Indian steep, / From her cabin'd loop-hole peep" (John Milton).
American ornithologist best known for her careful observations of bird behavior, described in her book Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (1937).

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