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1. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance
   "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"; "nice manners"; "a nice dress"; "a nice face"; "a nice day"; "had a nice time at the party"; "the corn and tomatoes are nice today"
    
2. Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
   "a nice girl"
   - decent
    
3. Done with delicacy and skill
   "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"
   - skillful [N. Amer], skilful [Brit, Cdn]
    
4. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
   "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"
   - dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish
    
5. Exhibiting courtesy and politeness
   "a nice gesture"
   - courteous, gracious

1. A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

Sounds like: gneiss

Derived forms: nicest, nicer

See also: fastidious, good, nicely, niceness, pleasant, polite, precise, respectable

Type of: city, metropolis, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Antonym: nasty

Part of: France, French Republic

Encyclopedia: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes Nice Nice, CA Nice, France Nice, California