nice

Haar nieuwe album is echt nice.

nl-adj

nice (comparative nicer, superlative meest nice or nicest)

nicer (comparative)
meest nice (superlative)
nicest (superlative)
nice (adverbial positive predicative)
nicer (adverbial comparative predicative)
het nicest (adverbial predicative superlative)
het niceste (adverbial predicative superlative)
nice (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
nicere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
niceste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
nice (indefinite neuter positive singular)
nicer (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
niceste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
nice (indefinite plural positive)
nicere (comparative indefinite plural)
niceste (indefinite plural superlative)
nice (definite positive)
nicere (comparative definite)
niceste (definite superlative)
nices (partitive positive)
nicers (comparative partitive)


nice

"It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.

1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing), →OCLC:

When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)

1998, “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, performed by Baha Men:

What's difficult is when you think someone is saying something nice about you, but you're not quite sure.

2008 April 19, Rachel Cooke, quoting David Lodge, “Nice work”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

(chiefly informal) Pleasant, satisfactory.

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.

2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11:

(chiefly informal) Of a person: friendly, attractive.

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.

1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 14:

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.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(with and, chiefly informal) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.

For Candy Crush Saga, the critics were far nicer than the audience (7.9/10 vs. 3.2/10). https://www.metacritic.com/game/candy-crush-saga/

(chiefly informal) Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression.

a nice way of putting it

(chiefly informal) Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

There is nothing he seemed to be more carefull of than of his honesty, and observe a kinde of decencie of his person, and orderly decorum in his habits, were it on foot or on horsebacke. He was exceeding nice in performing his word or promise.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 2, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

But if I dispense with the dreams of neurotics, my main material, I cannot be too nice [translating wählerisch] in my dealings with the remainder.

1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 83:

(now rare) Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.

Choice, nice in eating; fastidiosus in edendo.

1898, Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller, “cís”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156:

(dated) Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.

“Well, my dear,” he deliberately began, “considering we never saw her before, she seems a very pretty sort of young lady; and I dare say she was very much pleased with you. She speaks a little too quick. A little quickness of voice there is which rather hurts the ear. But I believe I am nice; I do not like strange voices; and nobody speaks like you and poor Miss Taylor. ..."

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 14, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

"Good company requires only birth, education and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential."

1818, Jane Austen, chapter 16, in Persuasion:

(obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.

"It's her own funeral, you know," said Sir Lulworth; "it's a nice point in etiquette how far one ought to show respect to one's own mortal remains."

It would be a nice theological point to try and establish whether Ophis is Moslem or gnostic.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 131:

Why it should have attained such longevity is a nice question.

2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 242:

Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.

(obsolete) Easily injured; delicate; dainty.

[W]ere it good / To ſet the exact wealth of al our ſtates / Al at one caſt? to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre?

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Is it good / To bet all of our wealth / On one throw of the dice? To place so high a stake / On the risky hazard of one doubtful hour?

It has been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.

1822 July 28, T. Creevey, Reminiscences:

(obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.

en-adj

nice (comparative nicer, superlative nicest)

nicer (comparative)
nicest (superlative)

awful

antonym(s) of “having a pleasant taste or aroma”

→ Dutch: nice

→ German: nice

→ Danish: nice

→ Japanese: ナイス

→ Polish: najs

→ Swedish: najs, nice

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: nice

чувствителен

showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment

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”).


nice

Children, play nice.

He dresses real nice.

This riesling's going down nice.

2002, Gina Riley, Jane Turner, That's Unusual: Scripts from Kath and Kim, Series 2, page 245:


nice

Nice! I couldn't have done better.

Is that your new car? Nice!


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.

2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, page 111:

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.

2013, Todd Whitaker, What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most, →ISBN:

It is the absence of rules and too much nice that are more likely to produce terror.

2014, Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson, David Bredehoft, How Much Is Too Much?, →ISBN:


nice

(transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

en-verb

nice (third-person singular simple present nices, present participle nicing, simple past and past participle niced)

nices (present singular third-person)
nicing (participle present)
niced (participle past)
niced (past)

Name of a Unix program used to invoke a script or program with a specified priority, with the implication that running at a lower priority is "nice" (kind, etc.) because it leaves more resources for others.


nice

Oui, crédulement, vous ne comprenez pas? Entendez donc que j’ai cru, plus nice qu’une pensionnaire, au pouvoir exclusif de cet inconnu que je fuyais !

1907, Colette, La retraite sentimentale, page 41:

Inherited from Old French nice, inherited from Latin nescius.


nice

Na gut. Und auch, wenn ich nur das eine Regal hatte – in der Schule konnte ich durch dich mitreden. Ja, Pax, voll nice und geräumig, der Poäng-Sessel, mega gemütlich.

2020 December 8, Sara Tomšić, “Die Zukunft, das ist die grüne Samtcouch”, in ZEITmagazin:

Fine. And even if I only had that one shelf – thanks to you, I had a say in conversations at school. Oh, Pax, all nice and spacious, and the Poäng armchair, super comfortable.

Ich steh' im Club / Seh' ziemlich nice aus / Ah, wobei, die Schuhe / Ne, scheiß drauf, ich seh' nice aus

2021, “Feeling”, performed by Fatoni & Dexter:

I'm at the club / Lookin' pretty good / Actually, these shoes / Nah, fuck it, I look good

de-adj

nice (strong nominative masculine singular nicer, comparative (rare) nicer, superlative (extremely rare) am nicesten)

nicer (masculine nominative singular strong)
nicer (comparative rare)
am nicesten (rare superlative)
nice (masculine predicative singular)
nice (feminine predicative singular)
nice (neuter predicative singular)
nice (plural predicative)
nicer (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
nice (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
nices (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
nice (nominative plural strong without-article)
nicen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
nicer (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
nicen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
nicer (genitive plural strong without-article)
nicem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
nicer (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
nicem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
nicen (dative plural strong without-article)
nicen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
nice (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
nices (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
nice (accusative plural strong without-article)
der nice (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die nice (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das nice (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die nicen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des nicen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der nicen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des nicen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der nicen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem nicen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der nicen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem nicen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den nicen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den nicen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die nice (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das nice (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die nicen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein nicer (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine nice (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein nices (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
nicen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine nicen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines nicen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer nicen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines nicen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
nicen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner nicen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem nicen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer nicen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem nicen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
nicen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen nicen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen nicen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine nice (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein nices (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
nicen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine nicen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
nicer (comparative masculine predicative rare singular)
nicer (comparative feminine predicative rare singular)
nicer (comparative neuter predicative rare singular)
nicer (comparative plural predicative rare)
nicerer (comparative masculine nominative rare singular strong without-article)
nicere (comparative feminine nominative rare singular strong without-article)
niceres (comparative neuter nominative rare singular strong without-article)
nicere (comparative nominative plural rare strong without-article)
niceren (comparative genitive masculine rare singular strong without-article)
nicerer (comparative feminine genitive rare singular strong without-article)
niceren (comparative genitive neuter rare singular strong without-article)
nicerer (comparative genitive plural rare strong without-article)
nicerem (comparative dative masculine rare singular strong without-article)
nicerer (comparative dative feminine rare singular strong without-article)
nicerem (comparative dative neuter rare singular strong without-article)
niceren (comparative dative plural rare strong without-article)
niceren (accusative comparative masculine rare singular strong without-article)
nicere (accusative comparative feminine rare singular strong without-article)
niceres (accusative comparative neuter rare singular strong without-article)
nicere (accusative comparative plural rare strong without-article)
der nicere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative rare singular weak)
die nicere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative rare singular weak)
das nicere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative rare singular weak)
die niceren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural rare weak)
des niceren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine rare singular weak)
der niceren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article rare singular weak)
des niceren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter rare singular weak)
der niceren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural rare weak)
dem niceren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine rare singular weak)
der niceren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article rare singular weak)
dem niceren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter rare singular weak)
den niceren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural rare weak)
den niceren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine rare singular weak)
die nicere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article rare singular weak)
das nicere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter rare singular weak)
die niceren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural rare weak)
ein nicerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative rare singular)
eine nicere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative rare singular)
ein niceres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative rare singular)
niceren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural rare)
keine niceren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural rare)
eines niceren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed rare singular)
einer niceren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed rare singular)
eines niceren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter rare singular)
niceren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural rare)
keiner niceren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural rare)
einem niceren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed rare singular)
einer niceren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed rare singular)
einem niceren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter rare singular)
niceren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural rare)
keinen niceren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural rare)
einen niceren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed rare singular)
eine nicere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed rare singular)
ein niceres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter rare singular)
niceren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural rare)
keine niceren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural rare)
am nicesten (masculine predicative rare singular superlative)
am nicesten (feminine predicative rare singular superlative)
am nicesten (neuter predicative rare singular superlative)
am nicesten (plural predicative rare superlative)
nicester (masculine nominative rare singular strong superlative without-article)
niceste (feminine nominative rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicestes (neuter nominative rare singular strong superlative without-article)
niceste (nominative plural rare strong superlative without-article)
nicesten (genitive masculine rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicester (feminine genitive rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicesten (genitive neuter rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicester (genitive plural rare strong superlative without-article)
nicestem (dative masculine rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicester (dative feminine rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicestem (dative neuter rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicesten (dative plural rare strong superlative without-article)
nicesten (accusative masculine rare singular strong superlative without-article)
niceste (accusative feminine rare singular strong superlative without-article)
nicestes (accusative neuter rare singular strong superlative without-article)
niceste (accusative plural rare strong superlative without-article)
der niceste (definite includes-article masculine nominative rare singular superlative weak)
die niceste (definite feminine includes-article nominative rare singular superlative weak)
das niceste (definite includes-article neuter nominative rare singular superlative weak)
die nicesten (definite includes-article nominative plural rare superlative weak)
des nicesten (definite genitive includes-article masculine rare singular superlative weak)
der nicesten (definite feminine genitive includes-article rare singular superlative weak)
des nicesten (definite genitive includes-article neuter rare singular superlative weak)
der nicesten (definite genitive includes-article plural rare superlative weak)
dem nicesten (dative definite includes-article masculine rare singular superlative weak)
der nicesten (dative definite feminine includes-article rare singular superlative weak)
dem nicesten (dative definite includes-article neuter rare singular superlative weak)
den nicesten (dative definite includes-article plural rare superlative weak)
den nicesten (accusative definite includes-article masculine rare singular superlative weak)
die niceste (accusative definite feminine includes-article rare singular superlative weak)
das niceste (accusative definite includes-article neuter rare singular superlative weak)
die nicesten (accusative definite includes-article plural rare superlative weak)
ein nicester (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative rare singular superlative)
eine niceste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative rare singular superlative)
ein nicestes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative rare singular superlative)
nicesten (indefinite mixed nominative plural rare superlative)
keine nicesten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural rare superlative)
eines nicesten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed rare singular superlative)
einer nicesten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed rare singular superlative)
eines nicesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter rare singular superlative)
nicesten (genitive indefinite mixed plural rare superlative)
keiner nicesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural rare superlative)
einem nicesten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed rare singular superlative)
einer nicesten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed rare singular superlative)
einem nicesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter rare singular superlative)
nicesten (dative indefinite mixed plural rare superlative)
keinen nicesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural rare superlative)
einen nicesten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed rare singular superlative)
eine niceste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed rare singular superlative)
ein nicestes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter rare singular superlative)
nicesten (accusative indefinite mixed plural rare superlative)
keine nicesten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural rare superlative)


nice

(slang) Alternative form of najs (“nice”)


nice

From Ottoman Turkish نیچه (nice, “how much”), from Proto-Turkic *nēče, equative form of *nē (“what”). See ne (“what”), cognate to Karakhanid ناجا (nēčē, “how much”).


nice

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *nē- (“interrogative archetype”).