nice
pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
How often you will meet it
Rank 998 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,295 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nastynice manners
- socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous also: decent from a decent familya nice girl
- done with delicacy and skill also: skillful a nice bit of crafta job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted also: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish too nice about his food to take to camp cookingso squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow
- exhibiting courtesy and politeness also: courteous, gracious a nice gesture
noun
- a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera
nice in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A nice, shiny runabout, that I can 'run' myself.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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He turned and turned, and the roast got nice and brown.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1
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It was nice to hear her laugh, though; it made things seem warmer somehow.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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When first I saw you, nice and clean, It was a sight to show the Queen!
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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She had nice, round, fresh cheeks and nice, big, honest eyes, plenty of mouse-brown hair and a short, straight nose.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1