## Examples
- We had a really nice time at the beach.
- She is a nice person who always helps her neighbours.
- It was nice of him to hold the door open for us.

## Synonyms
- delightful
- friendly
- kind
- lovely
- pleasant
- sweet

## Antonyms
- awful
- disgusting
- distasteful
- foul
- gross
- horrible
- horrid
- nasty
- naughty
- nauseating
- putrid
- rancid

## Related Forms
- nicety

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: Nīcaea
- Root: Νῑ́καια

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Nice was 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. The historical chain includes Latin Nīcaea and Ancient Greek Νῑ́καια. Modern senses include pleasant, enjoyable, or attractive and kind and friendly toward other people. The wider word family includes related forms such as nicety.

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- Describing People

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