- cordial
- ducky
- fair
- friendly
- good
- kind
- lovely
- okay
- superior
- swell
- welcome
- winning
- admirable
- amiable
- approved
- attractive
- becoming
- charming
- commendable
- considerate
- copacetic
- courteous
- decorous
- delightful
- favorable
- fine and dandy
- genial
- gentle
- gracious
- helpful
- ingratiating
- inviting
- kindly
- nifty
- obliging
- peachy
- pleasant
- pleasurable
- polite
- prepossessing
- seemly
- simpatico
- unpresumptuous
- well-mannered
- winsome
- dainty
- fine
- hairsplitting
- minute
- particular
- right
- tidy
- trim
- accurate
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- choosy
- conforming
- correct
- critical
- cultured
- decent
- delicate
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- meticulous
- persnickety
- picky
- proper
- respectable
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- squeamish
- strict
- subtle
- trivial
- virtuous
- well-bred
On this page you’ll find 226 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nice, such as: cordial, ducky, fair, friendly, good, and kind.
antonyms for nice
- aloof
- bad
- cool
- disagreeable
- mean
- ugly
- unacceptable
- unfriendly
- unpleasant
- unsociable
- unsuitable
- disordered
- horrible
- imprecise
- nasty
- repulsive
- unlikable
- unmannerly
- unrefined
- coarse
- imprecise
- inexact
- rough
- sloppy
- undiscriminating
- bad
- disagreeable
- disordered
- horrible
- nasty
- repulsive
- unlikable
- unmannerly
- unpleasant
- unrefined
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WORDS RELATED TO NICE
- amiable
- amicable
- approachable
- benevolent
- benign
- breezy
- civil
- clubby
- congenial
- cordial
- courteous
- genial
- gentle
- good-humored
- good-natured
- gracious
- kindly
- mild
- nice
- obliging
- pleasant
- polite
- sociable
- urbane
- warm
- acceptable
- dandy
- delicious
- delightful
- enjoyable
- fair
- fine
- gratifying
- hunky-dory
- mild
- nice
- peach
- peachy
- pleasant
- pleasurable
- pleasureful
- ready
- satisfying
- spiffy
- swell
- to one’s liking
- to one’s taste
- welcome
- agreeable
- beseeching
- cute
- emanate
- engaging
- entrancing
- entreating
- imploring
- lovable
- nice
- pleading
- present
- supplicating
- tempting
- admirable
- alluring
- angelic
- appealing
- beauteous
- bewitching
- charming
- classy
- comely
- cute
- dazzling
- delicate
- delightful
- divine
- elegant
- enticing
- excellent
- exquisite
- fair
- fascinating
- fine
- foxy
- good-looking
- gorgeous
- graceful
- grand
- handsome
- ideal
- lovely
- magnificent
- marvelous
- nice
- pleasing
- pretty
- pulchritudinous
- radiant
- ravishing
- refined
- resplendent
- shapely
- sightly
- splendid
- statuesque
- stunning
- sublime
- superb
- symmetrical
- taking
- well-formed
- wonderful
- befitting
- comme il faut
- compatible
- conforming
- congruous
- correct
- decent
- decorous
- fit
- fitting
- in keeping
- nice
- proper
- right
- seemly
- worthy
- according to Hoyle
- apt
- becoming
- beseeming
- comme il faut
- conforming
- correct
- decent
- decorous
- felicitous
- fit
- fitting
- happy
- just
- kosher
- nice
- on the button
- on the nose
- proper
- right
- right on
- seemly
- suitable
- what the doctor ordered
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likable, likable or likeable
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likable, likable or likeable
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How is the word nice different from other adjectives like it?
Some common synonyms of nice are accurate, correct, exact, precise, and right. While all these words mean «conforming to fact, standard, or truth,» nice stresses great precision and delicacy of adjustment or discrimination.
When can accurate be used instead of nice?
The words accurate and nice can be used in similar contexts, but accurate implies fidelity to fact or truth attained by exercise of care.
When is it sensible to use correct instead of nice?
While the synonyms correct and nice are close in meaning, correct usually implies freedom from fault or error.
Where would exact be a reasonable alternative to nice?
While in some cases nearly identical to nice, exact stresses a very strict agreement with fact, standard, or truth.
How do precise and exact relate to one another, in the sense of nice?
Precise adds to exact an emphasis on sharpness of definition or delimitation.
How are the words right and correct related as synonyms of nice?
Right is close to correct but has a stronger positive emphasis on conformity to fact or truth rather than mere absence of error or fault.
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : nahys |
Phonetic Transcription : naɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for nice
Other synonyms for the word nice
- accurate
- admirable
- amiable
- approved
- attractive
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- charming
- choosy
- commendable
- conforming
- considerate
- copacetic
- correct
- courteous
- critical
- cultured
- decent
- decorous
- delicate
- delightful
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- favorable
- fine and dandy
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussy
- genial
- genteel
- gentle
- gracious
- helpful
- ingratiating
- inviting
- kindly
- meticulous
- minute
- nifty
- obliging
- okay
- particular
- peachy
- persnickety
- picky
- pleasant
- pleasurable
- polite
- prepossessing
- proper
- respectable
- right
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- simpatico
- squeamish
- strict
- subtle
- superior
- swell
- tidy
- trim
- trivial
- unpresumptuous
- virtuous
- welcome
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- winning
- winsome
Définition of nice
Origin :
- late 13c., «foolish, stupid, senseless,» from Old French nice (12c.) «careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish,» from Latin nescius «ignorant, unaware,» literally «not-knowing,» from ne- «not» (see un-) + stem of scire «to know» (see science). «The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj.» [Weekley] — from «timid» (pre-1300); to «fussy, fastidious» (late 14c.); to «dainty, delicate» (c.1400); to «precise, careful» (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to «agreeable, delightful» (1769); to «kind, thoughtful» (1830).
- «In many examples from the 16th and 17th centuries it is difficult to say in what particular sense the writer intended it to be taken.» [OED]
- By 1926, it was pronounced «too great a favorite with the ladies, who have charmed out of it all its individuality and converted it into a mere diffuser of vague and mild agreeableness.» [Fowler]
- «I am sure,» cried Catherine, «I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should I not call it so?»»Very true,» said Henry, «and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk; and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything.» [Jane Austen, «Northanger Abbey,» 1803]
- adj likable, agreeable
- adj precise, neat, refined
Example sentences :
- Rained lightly last night, and we had a nice shower this morning.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- «Nice place to study in, sir,» said Thompson, as we walked along.
- Extract from : « Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- «It certainly is nice to be liked,» returned Kathleen softly.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe’s Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- It’s nice to be so tired, and to know one can sleep as long as one wants.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- You haven’t said a word about all the nice things you did for the girls.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe’s Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- She was nice and friendly to us to-day, and I’m willin’ to trust her to-morrow.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- Mart, I’ve got tickets to a show,—a nice place,—and I want you to go along.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- But don’t you really think that people have a right to have any nice times?
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- A nice operation indeed, to make me at once one-eyed and one-armed.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- I felt as if I were amusing a nice boy; he hardly came to my shoulder.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
Antonyms for nice
- aloof
- bad
- coarse
- cool
- disagreeable
- disordered
- horrible
- imprecise
- inexact
- mean
- nasty
- repulsive
- rough
- sloppy
- ugly
- unacceptable
- undiscriminating
- unfriendly
- unlikable
- unmannerly
- unpleasant
- unrefined
- unsociable
- unsuitable
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niceadjective
Synonyms:
friendly, delightful, lovely, sweet, pleasant, kind, charmingAntonyms:
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niceadjective
Synonyms:
tasty, moreish, appetizing, delicious, appetising, scrummy, scrumptiousAntonyms:
putrid, disgusting, rank, foul, distasteful, horrible, horrid, nauseating, gross, nasty, rancid, sickening, awful, unsatisfactory -
niceadjective
Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.
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niceadjective
What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?
Antonyms:
naughty
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Fine (Latin finis, end) denotes that which has been brought to a full end, finished. From this root-sense many derived meanings branch out, causing words quite remote from each other to be alike synonyms of fine. That which is truly finished, brought to an ideal end, is excellent of its kind, and beautiful, if a thing that admits of beauty; as, a fine house, fine trees, a fine woman, a fine morning; if a thing that admits of the removal of impurities, it is not finished till these are removed, and hence fine signifies clarified, clear, pure, refined; as, fine gold. That which is finished is apt to be polished, smooth to the touch, minutely exact in outline; hence fine comes to be a synonym for all words like dainty, delicate, exquisite; as, fine manners, a fine touch, fine perceptions. As that which is delicate is apt to be small, by an easy extension of meaning fine becomes a synonym for slender, slight, minute, comminuted; as, a fine thread, fine sand; or for filmy, tenuous, thin; as, a fine lace, fine wire; and as a thin edge is keen, sharp, fine becomes also a synonym for these words; as, a fine point, a fine edge. Compare BEAUTIFUL; MINUTE.
Synonyms:
beautiful, clarified, clear, comminuted, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fine, gauzy, handsome, keen, minute, polished, pure, refined, sensitive, sharp, slender, slight, small, smooth, splendid, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thinAntonyms:
big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes
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nice
Synonyms:
fastidious, scrupulous, accurate, neat, discerning, dainty, pleasant, agreeable, exact, fine, finished, particularAntonyms:
coarse, unscrupulous, inaccurate, rude, rough, undiscriminating, nasty, nauseous, disagreeable
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Niceadjective
a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera
Antonyms:
unfastidious, unrespectable, nasty, mean, imprecise, awful, filthy, hateful, impolite, grotty, lousy, dirty -
niceadjective
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»
Synonyms:
dainty, courteous, overnice, gracious, squeamish, skillful, prissy, decentAntonyms:
mean, hateful, nasty, lousy, awful, unrespectable, filthy, grotty, impolite, unfastidious, imprecise, dirty -
decent, niceadjective
socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
«from a decent family»; «a nice girl»
Synonyms:
comme il faut, courteous, overnice, adequate, decorous, comely, becoming, squeamish, gracious, dainty, enough, skillful, nice, prissy, seemly, decentAntonyms:
impolite, hateful, filthy, imprecise, dirty, unfastidious, awful, grotty, unrespectable, lousy, nasty, mean -
nice, skillfuladjective
done with delicacy and skill
«a nice bit of craft»; «a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer»; «a nice shot»
Synonyms:
dainty, courteous, skilful, overnice, proficient, good, gracious, squeamish, practiced, adept, skillful, nice, prissy, expert, decentAntonyms:
dirty, lousy, unrespectable, awful, mean, grotty, hateful, unfastidious, nasty, impolite, filthy, imprecise -
dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamishadjective
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»
Synonyms:
mincing, straitlaced, prissy, squeamish, decent, dainty, puritanical, straightlaced, priggish, overnice, skillful, straight-laced, gracious, tight-laced, nice, strait-laced, niminy-piminy, courteous, prudish, victorian, prim, exquisite, twee, square-toedAntonyms:
imprecise, lousy, grotty, unrespectable, awful, unfastidious, nasty, mean, hateful, impolite, dirty, filthy -
courteous, gracious, niceadjective
exhibiting courtesy and politeness
«a nice gesture»
Synonyms:
courteous, overnice, squeamish, gracious, dainty, benignant, nice, prissy, skillful, decentAntonyms:
grotty, unfastidious, lousy, impolite, hateful, dirty, filthy, awful, mean, imprecise, nasty, unrespectable
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niceadjective
Synonyms:
exact, accurate, precise, critical, definite, strict, rigorous -
niceadjective
Synonyms:
fastidious, dainty, squeamish, punctilious, finical, difficult, over-scrupulous, exacting, hard to please, very particular -
niceadjective
Synonyms:
subtile, fine, refined, minute -
niceadjective
Synonyms:
delicate, dainty, luscious, soft, tender, savory, delicious, palatable -
niceadjective
Synonyms:
[Colloquial.] pleasant, agreeable, delightful, good
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niceadjective
Synonyms:
fastidious, exacting, particular, punctilious, queasy, finical, difficult, squeamish, dainty, delicate, refined, dainty, discriminating, scrupulous, precise, discerning, subtle, exquisite, agreeable, pleasant, enjoyable, gratifying, fine, neat, finished
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List of paraphrases for «nice»:
beautiful, pretty, sweet, lovely, pleasant, good, cute, handsome, fun, cool, belle, fine, enjoyable, gentle, good-looking, bel, happy, beau, charming, well, owl, neat, joli, great, sympathetic, agreeable, pleased, gentil, kind, jolie, chouette, jamil, delighted, -nice, beautifui, nice-looking, ravi, super, wonderful, fancy, pleasure, gorgeous
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How to use NICE in a sentence?
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Brian Dennehy:
I’m now 80 and I’m just another actor and that’s fine with me. I’ve had a hell of a ride, i have a nice house. I haven’t got a palace, a mansion, but a pretty nice, comfortable home. I’ve raised a bunch of kids and sent them all to school, and they’re all doing well. All the people that are close to me are reasonably healthy and happy. Listen, that’s as much as anybody can hope for in life.
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Heather Abbott:
Kori Tickel hasn’t let anything stop Kori Tickel, it’s been really nice to see Kori Tickel be able to do all the things that Kori Tickel loves to do.
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Donyale Printup:
Wouldn’t it be nice if they got a Target or Ross or somewhere nice to shop ? The little trolley comes through but there’s nothing to do. If people are coming here from all over they should have something to see, i’m just overwhelmed by all the changes.
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Ruben Barry Hubbard:
I know a plane’s fast where it takes you, but if you really want to relax yourself, this is what you need to do, when you’re on the train, especially one of these supertrains, these high-riding trains, you can see out the windows. … It’s really nice.
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Kirsten Dunst:
I mean, I was happy working with Jesse, we had a really nice time, and had a similar style.
Translations for NICE
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- عَطِر, لطيف, عَطِرة, حسن, طيبة, طيبArabic
- pěkný, příjemný, milý, krásný, hezký, pěkněCzech
- pænDanish
- hübsch, super, nett, freundlich, wunderbar, angenehm, toll, lieb, schön, geil, lecker, sympathischGerman
- ωραίας, καλός, νόστιμοςGreek
- belaEsperanto
- simpático, bueno, agradable, bello, bonito, rico, lindo, amableSpanish
- maitsev, meeldiv, kenaEstonian
- atseginBasque
- دلپذیر, ناز, پسندیده, خوشبو, خوشمزهPersian
- mukavaFinnish
- bon, belle, jolie, joli, bonne, beauFrench
- deasIrish
- laghach, snogScottish Gaelic
- יפה, נעה, נחמד, נעימה, נחמדה, נעיםHebrew
- अच्छाHindi
- szép, kellemesHungarian
- buono, gentile, bella, bello, buona, simpaticoItalian
- 快い, 可愛い, 良いJapanese
- 좋은Korean
- lepidusLatin
- aantrekkelijke, mooi, knappe, fijn, aangenaam, fijne, lekker, aangename, aantrekkelijk, mooie, lekkere, leuk, knap, netjes, goed zoDutch
- pen, fin, hyggelig, sympatiskNorwegian
- miły, przyjemnyPolish
- bonito, agradável, bom, simpático, beleza, ótimoPortuguese
- милый, приятный, симпатичный, тонкий, вкусный, хорошийRussian
- krásny, pekný, príjemný, milýSlovak
- fin, smaklig, vacker, läcker, vänlig, sympatisk, god, najs, snyggSwedish
- nzuriSwahili
- ఆకర్షణీయమైన, పసందైనTelugu
- ดีThai
- iyi, hoş, güzelTurkish
- اچھاUrdu
- đẹpVietnamese
- 不错Chinese
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