nice | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Pleasant, satisfactory, complimentary.(informal)
- You weren’t nice to me this morning.
- What's difficult is when you think someone is saying something nice about you, but you're not quite sure.
2.Of a person: friendly, attractive.(informal)
- 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.
3.Respectable; virtuous.
- What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?
- She was so nice, in fact, that she wouldn't let me put my hand underneath or even on top of her bra, and so I finished with her, although obviously I didn't tell her why.
4.Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.(informal)
- The soup is nice and hot.
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

1.niceness.
- It is the absence of rules and too much nice that are more likely to produce terror.
- We could debate forever about whether we have enough of one or too much of another. But I know one thing for sure: We never have too much nice.
- She had refused as kindly as she know how, using up as much nice as she had energy for because she was glad of his company when three o'clock rolled around and she started thinking about September.

Common· #531

From Middle English nyce, nice, nys

From Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”)

From Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”)

From ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).