nicely

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a nice way

   a nicely painted house

2. 2
   adv

   Fastidiously; carefully.

   He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].

3. 3
   adv

   Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.

   All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.

4. 4
   adv

   Pleasantly; satisfactorily.

   1986-1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He was a sweet boy, but became the kind of man I can do nicely without.

5. 5
   name

   A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English nycely; equivalent to nice + -ly.