nice
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Is nice a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly informal) Pleasant, satisfactory.Examples: "You weren’t nice to me this morning."; ""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."; "When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)"Synonyms: appetising, appetizing, delicious, moreish, scrummy, scrumptious, tastyinformal
2. (chiefly informal) Of a person: friendly, attractive.Examples: "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."Synonyms: charminginformal
3. (with and, chiefly informal) Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.Examples: "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."informal
4. (chiefly informal) Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression.Examples: "For Candy Crush Saga, the critics were far nicer than the audience (7.9/10 vs. 3.1/10)."informal
5. (chiefly informal) Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemlyExamples: "a nice way of putting it"informal
6. (obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.Examples: "Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions."obsolete
adv (English)
1. (colloquial) Nicely.Examples: "Children, play nice."; "He dresses real nice."; "This riesling's going down nice."colloquial
verb (English)
1. (transitive, computing, Unix) To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.Unixtransitive
name (English)
1. (UK) Acronym of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.UKabbreviationacronymalt-of
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