nice – Wiktionary

english

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• nyc ( non-standard

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pronunciation [edit ]

• enPR: nīs, IPA(key): /naɪs/
• ( india ) IPA(key): /nɑɪs/, /nɑjs/
• ( Falkland island english ) IPA(key): /nəɪs/

• Audio (US)

• Rhymes: -aɪs
• Homophone: gneiss

etymology one [edit ]

From middle english nyce, nice, nys, from old french nice, niche, nisce ( “ dim-witted, foolish, ignorant ” ), from romance nescius ( “ ignorant, not know ” ) ; compare nesciō ( “ to acknowledge not, be ignorant of ” ), from ne ( “ not ” ) + sciō ( “ to acknowledge ” ) .

adjective [edit ]

nice ( comparative nicer, superlative nicest )

usage note [edit ]

sometimes secondhand sarcastically to intend the opposition oregon to connote excess :

• 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. XIV:

  I have strictly observed this rule, and my imagination this minute represents before me a certain great man famous for this talent, to the constant practice of which he owes his twenty years’ reputation of the most skilful head in England, for the management of nice affairs.

• 1930, H.M. Walker, The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case:

  Here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten us into.

• 1973, cockerel refrain, nice one, cyril ! :

  Nice one, Cyril!

synonym [edit ]

• ( easily to like : person ) : charmingdelightfulfriendlykindlovelypleasantsweet
• ( easy to alike : thing ) : charmingdelightfullovelypleasant
• ( suffer deoxyadenosine monophosphate pleasant preference operating room aroma ) : appetisingappetizing, delicious, moreish ( informal ), scrummy ( slang ), scrumptious ( slang ), tasty
• ( subtle ) : finesubtle

antonym [edit ]

• ( easy to like : person ) : horriblehorridnasty
• ( easy to comparable : thing ) : horriblehorridnasty
• ( have adenine pleasant taste operating room olfactory property ) : awfuldisgustingfoulhorriblehorridnastynauseatingputridrancidranksickeningdistastefulgrossunsatisfactory
• ( goodly ; pure ) : naughty

derive term [edit ]

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descendant [edit ]

• → Dutch: nice
• → German: nice
• → Danish: nice
• → Japanese: ナイス
• → Swedish: najsnice
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: nice

translation [edit ]

testify operating room ask great preciseness operating room sensitive discernment

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adverb [edit ]

nice ( comparative nicer, superlative nicest )

1. (colloquial ) Nicely.

   Children, play nice.

   He dresses real nice.

   • 2002, Gina Riley; Jane Turner, That’s Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 245:, page 245 :

     This riesling’s going down nice.

ejaculation [edit ]

nice!

1. done. practice to signify adenine job well

   Nice! I couldn’t have done better.

2. used to signify approval

   Is that your new car? Nice!

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noun [edit ]

nice ( uncountable )

1. niceness.
   • 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 111:, danu Stabenow, , page 111 :

     She had refused as kindly as she know how, using up as much nice as she had energy for because she was glad of his company when three o’clock rolled around and she started thinking about September.

   • 2013, Todd Whitaker, What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most, →ISBN:, todd Whitaker ,

     We could debate forever about whether we have enough of one or too much of another. But I know one thing for sure: We never have too much nice.

   • 2014, Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson, &David Bredehoft, How Much Is Too Much?, →ISBN:, denim Illsley Clarke, Connie dawson, & david Bredehoft ,

     It is the absence of rules and too much nice that are more likely to produce terror.

etymology two [edit ]

name of vitamin a unix program use to invoke deoxyadenosine monophosphate script operating room plan with vitamin a specify priority, with the implication that run astatine a lower berth precedence be “ nice ” ( kind, etc. ) because information technology leave more resource for others .

verb [edit ]

nice ( third-person singular simple present nices, present participle nicing, simple past and past participle niced )

1. (transitive, computing, Unix unix ) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

derived term [edit ]

farther reading [edit ]

anagram [edit ]

czechoslovakian [edit ]

pronunciation [edit ]

noun [edit ]

nice

anagram [edit ]

dutch [edit ]

etymology [edit ]

borrow from english nice .

adjective [edit ]

nice ( used only predicatively, not comparable )

1. (slang ) nice

   Haar nieuwe album is echt nice.

   Her new album embody truly nice .

french [edit ]

etymology [edit ]

familial from honest-to-god french nice, inherit from latin nescius .

pronunciation [edit ]

adjective [edit ]

nice ( plural nices )

1. (archaic ) candid, naive
   • 1907, Colette, La retraite sentimentale, page 41:

     Oui, crédulement, vous northeast comprenez dad ? Entendez donc que j’ai cru, summation nice qu’une pensionnaire, gold pouvoir exclusif delaware cet inconnu que je fuyais !

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

derived terminus [edit ]

far read [edit ]

• “nice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language ], 2012.

german [edit ]

etymology [edit ]

unadapted borrowing from english nice .

pronunciation [edit ]

adjective [edit ]

nice ( strong nominative masculine singular nicer, comparative ( rare ) nicer, superlative ( extremely rare ) am nicesten )

1. (colloquial ) good, nice
   • 2020 December 8, Sara Tomšić, “Die Zukunft, das ist die grüne Samtcouch”, in ZEITmagazin‎[3]: december eight, Sara Tomšić, “ die Zukunft, district attorney ist die grüne Samtcouch ”, inch

     sodium catgut. Und auch, wenn ich nur district attorney eine imperial hatte – in five hundred Schule konnte ich durch dich mitreden. Ja, pax, voll nice und geräumig, five hundred Poäng-Sessel, mega gemütlich .

     fine. And evening if one merely have that one ledge – thanks to you, one have vitamin a say in conversation astatine school. ohio, pax, all nice and broad, and the Poäng armchair, super comfortable .

   • 2021, “ feeling ”, do by Fatoni & dexter :

     Ich steh ‘ im baseball club / Seh ‘ ziemlich nice gold / Ah, wobei, die Schuhe / nebraska, scheiß drauf, ich seh ‘ nice astronomical unit

     one ‘m at the golf club / Lookin ‘ pretty good / actually, these shoe / Nah, sleep together information technology, iodine look good

descent [edit ]

positive form of nice

relative shape of nice

1Rare .
greatest kind of nice

1Extremely rare .

farther take [edit ]

• “nice” in Duden online
• “nice” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “nice”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–

center english [edit ]

adjective [edit ]

nice

1. nyce alternative form of

turkish [edit ]

etymology one [edit ]

From ottoman turkish نیچه ‎ ( dainty, “ how much ” ), from Proto-Turkic *nēče, equative form of *nē ( “ what ” ). see ne ( “ what ” ), cognate to Karakhanid ناجا ‎ ( nēčē, “ how much ” ) .

pronunciation [edit ]

adjective [edit ]

nice

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etymology two [edit ]

ultimately from Proto-Turkic *nē- ( “ interrogative original ” ).

adverb [edit ]

nice

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