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Nice   /naɪs/  /nis/   Listen
Nice

adjective
(compar. nicer; superl. nicest)
1.
Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.  "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"
2.
Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous.  Synonym: decent.  "A nice girl"
3.
Done with delicacy and skill.  Synonym: skillful.  "A job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer" , "A nice shot"
4.
Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.  Synonyms: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish.  "So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
5.
Exhibiting courtesy and politeness.  Synonyms: courteous, gracious.
noun
1.
A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera.



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"Nice" Quotes from Famous Books



... replied Vagualame, "if you despise the nice sum I bring you every month, that's your business! But I don't suppose you want to leave your old comrade in a ...
— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre
... well enough," said they. "And, then, hang it all, a boat is not so firm as a dancing floor. Ah! the poor little woman, it'll be a nice awakening ...
— Therese Raquin • Emile Zola
... out on my passage over the Alps, being to pursue it ninety-three miles to Coni, on mules, as the snows are not yet enough melted to admit carriages to pass. I leave mine here, therefore, proposing to return by water from Genoa. I think it will be three weeks before I get back to Nice. I find this climate quite as delightful as it has been represented. Hieres is the only place in France, which may be compared with it. The climates are equal. In favor of this place, are the circumstances of gay and dissipated society, a handsome city, ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... "They're a nice crowd," he thought—"Miss Starr, Marco, the Benares Brothers, the clown. How different, though, to what I used to think! It's business with them, real work, for all the tinsel and glare. It's a pleasant business, though, and they must make a ...
— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness
... who happened to be a gentleman, explained that the Board could not dismiss the question in so summary a way. "He could foresee that there might be a nice point of law in the case. They would have to take some legal means of ascertaining their liabilities, and of forcing the other parish to take the child if they ought to do so. They must consult their solicitor." This gentleman was sent for post ...
— Ginx's Baby • Edward Jenkins


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