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Nice
NICE, a. [G. To eat dainties or sweetmeats]
1. Properly, soft; whence, delicate; tender; dainty; sweet or very pleasant to the taste; as a nice bit; nice food.
2. Delicate; fine; applied to texture, composition or color; as cloth of a nice texture; nice tints of color.
3. Accurate; exact; precise; as nice proportions; nice symmetry; nice workmanship; nice rules.
4. Requiring scrupulous exactness; as a nice point.
5. Perceiving the smallest difference; distinguishing accurately and minutely by perception; as a person of nice taste; hence,
6. Perceiving accurately the smallest faults, errors or irregularities; distinguishing and judging with exactness; as a nice judge of a subject; nice discernment.
Our author happy in a judge so nice.
7. Over scrupulous or exact.
Curious, not knowing; not exact, but nice.
8. Delicate; scrupulously and minutely cautious.
The letter was not nice, but full of charge of dear import.
Dear love, continue nice and chaste.
9. Fastidious; squeamish.
And to taste, think not I shall be nice.
10. Delicate; easily injured.
How nice the reputation of the maid!
11. Refined; as nice and subtle happiness.
12. Having lucky hits. [Not used.]
13. Weak; foolish; effeminate.
14. Trivial; unimportant.
To make nice, to be scrupulous.
nice appears in definitions for these words:
Accuracy Accurateness Acumen Acute Acutely Acuteness Antenicene Boldness Chariness Choicely Cleanly Coarse Coarseness Comment Council Critical Critically Criticalness Curiosity Curious Curiously Daintily Daintiness Dainty Delicacy Delicate Delicately Dependence Discreetly Discretion Discriminating Distinctness Distinguisher Ear Elaborately Elegance Elegant Exact Exactly Exactness Exquisite Exquisitely Exquisiteness Fall Fastidious Feeling Fine Fineddrawing Finedraw Finefingered Finely Fineness Finical Finically Finicalness Gauge Gimp Gingerly Gingerness Graduate Harridan Hopeful Hypercritical Indelicacy Indiction Jump Just Knack Librate Lickerish Lickerishness Luxury Mince Minutely Neatly Nesh Nice Nicely Nicene Niceness Nicety Observe Overcurious Palate Particular Partition Penetration Pick Pique Point Precise Precisely Preciseness Prim Primness Propension Proscribe Prude Prudery Punctilio Punctilious Punctiliously Punctiliousness Puncto Punctual Punctuality Punctually Purist Quaint Quaintly Quaintness Quiddity Quillet Quodlibet Rarely Refine Refinedly Refinement Refiner Relish Rigorously Rough-cast Rough-hewn Rough-work Rudely Sage Scandalously Scent Scholastically School Schoolman Scrupulosity Scrupulous Scrupulously Scrupulousness Select Sensibility Severe Severity Sharp Sharp-witted Sharply Sharpness Shrewd Shrewdness Skillful Skillfully Slattern Sleekly Smerk Smug Soft Softling Spice Spruce Squab Squeamish Squeamishly Squeamishness Squeasy Strict Strictly Strictness Stubbed Subtil Subtilize Subtilty Subtly Superstition Susceptible Tact Taste Tasty Ticklish Tid Trick Trimly U Vicety View Weigh
Accuracy Accurateness Acumen Acute Acutely Acuteness Antenicene Boldness Chariness Choicely Cleanly Coarse Coarseness Comment Council Critical Critically Criticalness Curiosity Curious Curiously Daintily Daintiness Dainty Delicacy Delicate Delicately Dependence Discreetly Discretion Discriminating Distinctness Distinguisher Ear Elaborately Elegance Elegant Exact Exactly Exactness Exquisite Exquisitely Exquisiteness Fall Fastidious Feeling Fine Fineddrawing Finedraw Finefingered Finely Fineness Finical Finically Finicalness Gauge Gimp Gingerly Gingerness Graduate Harridan Hopeful Hypercritical Indelicacy Indiction Jump Just Knack Librate Lickerish Lickerishness Luxury Mince Minutely Neatly Nesh Nice Nicely Nicene Niceness Nicety Observe Overcurious Palate Particular Partition Penetration Pick Pique Point Precise Precisely Preciseness Prim Primness Propension Proscribe Prude Prudery Punctilio Punctilious Punctiliously Punctiliousness Puncto Punctual Punctuality Punctually Purist Quaint Quaintly Quaintness Quiddity Quillet Quodlibet Rarely Refine Refinedly Refinement Refiner Relish Rigorously Rough-cast Rough-hewn Rough-work Rudely Sage Scandalously Scent Scholastically School Schoolman Scrupulosity Scrupulous Scrupulously Scrupulousness Select Sensibility Severe Severity Sharp Sharp-witted Sharply Sharpness Shrewd Shrewdness Skillful Skillfully Slattern Sleekly Smerk Smug Soft Softling Spice Spruce Squab Squeamish Squeamishly Squeamishness Squeasy Strict Strictly Strictness Stubbed Subtil Subtilize Subtilty Subtly Superstition Susceptible Tact Taste Tasty Ticklish Tid Trick Trimly U Vicety View Weigh
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