nice

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It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was.

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Quick take

a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nice gathered in one view.

noun

a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

adjective

pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"- George Meredith; "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"

adjective

socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nice.

noun

a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

adjective

socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"

adjective

done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"

adjective

excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

See also: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish

adjective

exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture"

Example sentences

It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was.

It's nice to hear this kind of device review from a corner you don't usually hear it from.

Well, she found out she got the one she really wanted and so that night we went out to a nice dinner to celebrate.

I saw that one of my old textbooks was selling for a nice price, so I listed it along with two other used copies.

We did it up like you would expect a happy couple to - nice bottle of wine, share an appetizer and dessert, etc.

It would be nice to be able to use them in the future with some continued reliability.

Our technology is good enough to make the world into a nice place for everyone, but we don't do it because our social "software" is broken.

I think that not having points has some nice qualities, but it also feels like I'm being denied information that I find useful in reading/skimming a thread.

Same thing with using "BDD" testing frameworks like RSpec vs. traditional assert stuff, what is the nice syntax worth if tricky bugs hit you where you most want to avoid it, in tests.

None of them wanted to read this pile of crap but again persistence can substitute for quality and he eventually got some nice references and quotes.

I use a Mac - sorry, it's really nice to use and I code a lot. I like my Kindle - sorry, it's better than the others and I read a lot. I live and work with proprietary software, but I believe in Free Software too. WebKit is popular because of Apple and Google.

As another example, I have been doing Ruby professionally for almost 10 years now, and despite this I have to strongly disagree with the conclusion of this quotation:Python is a beautiful, clean language. But the same restrictions that make it nice and clean mean that it’s hard to write beautiful, clean libraries.

We got that reputation by doing some concrete things differently than our competitors: we staffed an appropriate number of CSRs, trained them to be nice to customers, did a lot of gratuitous tech support for basic computer problems, and were flexible about resolving billing disputes.