NICE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of nice in English niceadjective uk /naɪs/ us /naɪs/

nice adjective (PLEASANT)

Add to word list Add to word list A1 pleasant, enjoyable, or satisfactory: Did you have a nice trip? Have a nice day/time! This milk doesn't smell very nice. Thanks for ringing - it's been nice talking to you. giving pleasure and holding your attention

• goodIt's a good film overall.
• enjoyableWe had an enjoyable time with Bob and Helen.
• pleasant The weather is pleasant but not too hot.
• interestingThe history of the place was really interesting.
• niceHave a nice day!

See more results »  nice and... B1 informal pleasantly: This orange is nice and juicy. See more

• After the trip, it was nice getting back to a few home comforts.
• This room is nice and cosy in the winter.
• You looked equally nice in both dresses - I wouldn't know which one to advise you to buy.
• It's always nice to be paid a compliment.
• It's nice to see her smile for a change.

Causing pleasure

• agreeable
• agreeableness
• agreeably
• all things to all people idiom
• attractive
• delightfully
• distraction
• diverting
• divertingly
• do someone's heart good idiom
• homey
• indulgent
• indulgently
• jovial
• jovially
• sensuous
• sensuously
• serendipitous
• sweeten
• swooning

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nice adjective (KIND)

A1 kind, friendly, or polite: Jane's new boyfriend is a really nice guy. I wish you'd be nice to your brother. It was very nice of her to drive you home. It's not nice to talk with your mouth full. behaving in a kind and pleasant way

• friendlyI like his sister - she's so friendly.
• niceHer boyfriend is really nice.
• amiableShe was perfectly amiable.
• genialOur genial host led us to our room.
• congenialHe's very congenial and so quite likeable.

See more results » a kind person

• kindYou'll never meet a kinder person.
• niceHe's such a nice guy.
• sweetShe's the sweetest little girl in the whole class.
• good toJay's mother has been very good to us.
• good-heartedHe's a good-hearted kid who loves to help out.

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• She's nice, but I don't feel I can confide in her.
• He's obviously making a conscious effort to be nice to me at the moment.
• He's a really nice guy.
• I tried to be nice to him, honest to God I did!
• He's not amazingly handsome, but he's nice and that's more important.

Friendly

• affability
• affable
• affably
• affiliative
• agreeableness
• congeniality
• conversable
• convivial
• conviviality
• convivially
• harmoniously
• harmony
• hospitable
• hospitably
• hospitality
• social
• sociality
• socially
• sugar and spice idiom
• sweet-natured

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Kind & thoughtful

nice adjective (SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT)

[ before noun ] formal based on very slight differences: I wasn't convinced by his nice distinction between a lie and an untruth. Detailed and careful

• blow-by-blow
• detailed
• detailedly
• diligence
• diligent
• graphic detail
• in depth phrase
• in the weeds idiom
• intimately
• intricate
• over-elaborate
• over-fussy
• over-organize
• over-organized
• painstaking
• thorough
• thoroughgoing
• thoroughgoingly
• thoroughness
• white-glove

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Grammar

And + adjectiveIn informal speaking, when we want to emphasise something positive, we often use and after nice or lovely with another adjective: … Nice or sympathetic?Nice is an adjective meaning ‘pleasant’, ‘enjoyable’ or ‘satisfactory’: …

Idioms

make nice nice one! nice work if you can get it (Definition of nice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

nice | American Dictionary

niceadjective [ -er/-est only ] us /nɑɪs/

nice adjective [-er/-est only] (PLEASANT)

Add to word list Add to word list pleasant, enjoyable, or satisfactory: Have a nice day! It was nice talking to you. That’s a really nice restaurant. She plans to start running more when the weather gets nicer.

nice adjective [-er/-est only] (KIND)

kind or friendly: I wish you’d be nice to your brother. He’s very smart, but he isn’t very nice. (Definition of nice from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of nice

nice The studies use a nice mix of qualitative and quantitative measures, although they lack representative samples. From the Cambridge English Corpus Here these hypotheses are replaced by the assumption that f is a nice diffeomorphism in between the critical points. From the Cambridge English Corpus This result provides a nice application of all the characterisations of partial metrisability that we have presented in this paper. From the Cambridge English Corpus From my point of view, it would be nice to have a somewhat broader set of reviews that contextualises ritual performances in particular societies. From the Cambridge English Corpus Then it sounds really nice, then you hear all the sounds, you hear the space. From the Cambridge English Corpus The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. From the Cambridge English Corpus They said they enjoyed pleasant views and areas in which to take ' nice walks ' as well as the sense of belonging to a community. From the Cambridge English Corpus Chance has no brain and exhibits a nice random distribution, free of bias. From the Cambridge English Corpus That alone is a pretty nice contribution, although inevitably depressing. From the Cambridge English Corpus It is very nice, but now our superiors have destroyed it. From the Cambridge English Corpus It would be nice if type errors could be filtered and translated so that they are more informative to casual users of the library. From the Cambridge English Corpus They would try to make the area nice for the hunters so that people could get food. From the Cambridge English Corpus So, here we have a nice test of the relationship between color contrast and color constancy. From the Cambridge English Corpus Intuitively, we may take this as a hint that this calculus with names does not really enjoy nice confluence features. From the Cambridge English Corpus We now focus on simple cycles and describe the dynamics of nice perturbations of them: the unfolding of simple cycles preserving their affine structures. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of nice These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of nice?

Translations of nice

in Chinese (Traditional) 令人愉快的, 愉快的, 美好的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 令人愉快的, 愉快的, 美好的… See more in Spanish bonito, bueno, agradable… See more in Portuguese agradável, simpático, bom… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian छान, चांगला/चांगली/चांगलं… See more 気持ちのいい, やさしい, 素敵（すてき）な… See more iyi, hoş, nazik… See more beau/belle, agréable, joli/-ie… See more bonic, bo, agradable… See more mooi/aardig, mooi, goed… See more இனிமையான, சுவாரஸ்யமான அல்லது திருப்திகரமான, அன்பான… See more अच्छा, सुखद, आनंददायक या संतोषजनक… See more સારું, સુંદર, મજાનું… See more dejlig, pæn, lækker… See more vacker, trevlig, snygg… See more baik, menarik, tepat… See more freundlich, schön, genau… See more fin, hyggelig, sympatisk… See more پر لطف, اچھا, خوشگوار… See more гарний, приємний, славний… See more !TRANSLATE… See more চমৎকার, আনন্দদায়ক, উপভোগ্য বা সন্তোষজনক… See more hezký, příjemný, milý… See more menyenangkan, hebat, tepat… See more ดี, สุภาพ, แน่นอน… See more tốt, hay ho, chính xác… See more miły, przyjemny, ładny… See more 멋진, 친절한… See more carino, bello, simpatico… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of nice

• nice cream
• nice-looking
• make nice idiom
• nice and... phrase
• nice one! idiom
• no more Mr Nice Guy idiom
• no more Mr. Nice Guy idiom

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• nice and... phrase
• nice one! idiom
• no more Mr Nice Guy idiom
• no more Mr. Nice Guy idiom
• nice work if you can get it idiom
• have a nice, good, etc. line in something idiom

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    • nice (PLEASANT)
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    • nice (KIND)
    • nice (SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT)
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    • nice (PLEASANT)
    • nice (KIND)
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