nice

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   exhibiting courtesy and politeness

   a nice gesture

2. 2
   adj

   excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

   I am too nice about my food to take to camp cooking.

3. 3
   adj

   pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance

   what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty- George Meredith

4. 4
   adj

   done with delicacy and skill

   a nice bit of craft

5. 5
   adj

   Pleasant, satisfactory.

   You weren’t nice to me this morning.

6. 6
   adj

   Of a person: friendly, attractive.

   Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.

7. 7
   adj

   Respectable; virtuous.

   What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?

8. 8
   adj

   Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.

   The soup is nice and hot.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Nice, from Latin Nīcaea, from Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia), named for a 4th-century-BCE victory of its colonizing Phocaean Greeks over local Ligurians, probably the Vediantii, from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-ia: forming place names”). Doublet of Iznik and Nicaea.