meaning of nice
1. Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
2. Of trifling moment; nimportant; trivial.
3. Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy; fastidious in small matters.
4. Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.
5. Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions; distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment.
6. Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
7. Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a nice party; a nice excursion; a nice person; a nice day; a nice sauce, etc.
8. NICE The Nonprofit International Consortium for Eiffel. nick [IRC] nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the users real name or login name, but is often more fanciful. Compare handle. [Jargon File] nickle /nikl/ ["nickel", common name for the US 5-cent coin] A nibble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattels GI 1600 the Intellivision games processor, a chip with 16 bit-wide RAM but 10 bit-wide ROM. See also deckle. NICOL I 1. Small subset of PL/I by Massachusetts Computer Assoc, ca. 1965. Version: NICOL II 1967. Sammet 1969, p. 542. 2. ICL, 1968. [same as 1?] NIFOC
9. a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera
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