nice
/naɪ̯s/ adjective A1- Pleasant, satisfactory, complimentary.
- Of a person: friendly, attractive. · You weren’t nice to me this morning.
- Respectable; virtuous. · What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?
- Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. · The soup is nice and hot.
- Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression. · For Candy Crush Saga, the critics were far nicer than the audience (7.9/10 vs. 3.1/10).
- Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly · a nice way of putting it
- Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.
- Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
Comparative nicer · Superlative nicest
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Isn’t that a nice imaginative name?
Wouldn’t it be nice if they did?
“Well, whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was divinely beautiful.
He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get someone to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found, and which were too much for his purse.”
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