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Nice is not feeding the booger-snatcher over the dinner table. Thanks mom.
nice
adjective
1 have a nice time: enjoyable, pleasant, agreeable, good, satisfying, gratifying, delightful, marvelous; entertaining, amusing, diverting, lovely, great. ANTONYMS unpleasant.
2 a nice landlord: pleasant, likable, agreeable, personable, congenial, amiable, affable, genial, friendly, charming, delightful, engaging; sympathetic, simpatico, compassionate, good. ANTONYMS nasty.
3 nice manners: polite, courteous, civil, refined, polished, genteel, elegant. ANTONYMS unrefined, rough.
4 that's a rather nice distinction: subtle, fine, delicate, minute, precise, strict, close; careful, meticulous, scrupulous. ANTONYMS approximate, rough.
5 it's a nice day: fine, pleasant, agreeable; dry, sunny, warm, mild. ANTONYMS stormy, nasty.
USAGE
nice
Nice originally had a number of meanings, including 'fine, subtle, discriminating' (they are not very nice in regard to the company they keep) ; 'refined in taste, hard to please, fastidious' (for company so nice, the finest caterers would be engaged) ; and 'precise, strict' (she has a nice sense of decorum). The popular overuse of nice to mean 'pleasant, agreeable, satisfactory' has rendered the word trite: we had a very nice time ; this is a nice room ; he's a nice boy.
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