# nice

Pronunciation: say "NYS" /naɪs/

## Adjective

1. Pleasant and satisfactory; agreeable to experience.
   - Simple: Good or pleasant in a way that makes you feel happy.
   - _The weather stayed nice for the entire road trip._
   - _They found a nice little cafe tucked away on a side street._
2. Of a person, kind, friendly, and pleasant to deal with.
   - Simple: Kind and friendly to other people.
   - _Her new roommate turned out to be genuinely nice._
   - _Everyone agreed the host was a nice man with an easy smile._
3. Used in the pattern 'nice and ___' to mark the following adjective as desirable, or as a mild intensifier meaning pleasantly or quite. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Used with 'and' before another word to mean pleasantly or very, as in feeling nice and warm.
   - _The bed was nice and soft after a long day on the trail._
   - _Take your time and explain it nice and slowly for the beginners._
5. Respectable, decent, and proper in character or behavior.
   - Simple: Decent and well-behaved, the way people think you should act.
   - _He insisted he was a nice fellow who kept to the straight and narrow._
   - _The boarding house took only nice, well-mannered tenants._
7. Calling for or marked by fine precision or delicate judgment; subtle.
   - Simple: Needing or showing very careful and exact judgment.
   - _Whether the contract covered part-time workers was a nice point of law that took the court months to settle._
   - _The philosophers drew a nice distinction between knowledge and mere belief._
14. Applied sarcastically to something bad, careless, or rude, expressing irritation or disapproval instead of praise.
   - Simple: Said in a joking, unkind way about something bad or rude, to show you are annoyed.
   - _A nice mess you've made of the kitchen, and the guests arrive in an hour._
   - _Nice manners, cutting in front of everyone in line like that._

## Interjection

4. Said to show approval or pleasure at something, including a task done well.
   - Simple: Said when you like something or think someone did something well.
   - _They upgraded our seats for free? Nice._
   - _Nice, the whole weekend is open and the weather looks clear._

## Adverb

6. In a pleasing, kind, or skillful manner; nicely. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: In a good, kind, or pleasing way.
   - _If you ask her nice, she'll probably lend you the truck for the weekend._
   - _She sang real nice at the wedding reception._

## Noun

8. The quality of being kind, friendly, or pleasant, thought of as something a person can have or show more or less of.
   - Simple: The quality of being kind and pleasant.
   - _After a twelve-hour shift, she had no nice left for rude customers._
   - _The coach told his players they needed less nice and more grit in the second half._

## Adjective

9. Having very particular tastes; fussy and fastidious, hard to satisfy. *(dated)*
   - Simple: Hard to please and fussy about small details.
10. Very particular and exacting about rules, standards, or right conduct; scrupulous. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Very careful and strict about doing things exactly right.
11. Easily injured or damaged; delicate and dainty in constitution. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Easily hurt or damaged and very delicate.
12. Foolish, silly, or ignorant in understanding or behavior. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Foolish or silly, and not knowing much.
13. Doubtful as to the outcome; risky and hanging in the balance. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Uncertain and risky in how it might end.

## Other meanings

- (verb) To run a process at a specified, usually lower, priority so it claims fewer system resources.

## Origin

It comes from Middle English "nyce," from Old French "nice" ("simple, foolish, ignorant"), which in turn comes from Latin "nescius" ("ignorant, not knowing"), built from "ne" ("not") plus "scio" ("to know").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/nice (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).