nice

Meanings

Adjective

• Pleasant, satisfactory.
• Of a person: friendly, attractive.
• Respectable; virtuous.
• ; pleasantly, quite.
• Silly, ignorant; foolish.
• Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.
• Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.
• Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.
• Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
• Easily injured; delicate; dainty.
• Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.

Adverb

• Nicely.

Noun

• niceness.

Verb

• To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

Related

Similar words

• charming, delightful, friendly, kind, lovely, pleasant, sweet
• charming, delightful, lovely, pleasant
• appetising/appetizing, delicious, moreish , scrummy , scrumptious , tasty
• fine, subtle

Opposite words

• horrible, horrid, nasty
• awful, disgusting, foul, horrible, horrid, nasty, nauseating, putrid, rancid, rank, sickening, distasteful, gross, unsatisfactory
• naughty

Origin

• From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce, from Latin nescius ("ignorant, not knowing"); compare nesciō, from ne + sciō.
• Name of a Unix program used to invoke a script or program with a specified priority, with the implication that running at a lower priority is "nice" (kind, etc.) because it leaves more resources for others.