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Nouns (1)

Nice

n. city in France

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Adjectives (10)

nice

adj. pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"- George Meredith; "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"

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discriminate

adj. noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the argument"

decent

adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"

meticulous, punctilious

adj. marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"

dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish

adj. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

Fuzzynyms (87)

pretty

adj. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"

agreeable, good natured

adj. conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner"

enjoyable, gratifying, pleasurable

adj. affording satisfaction or pleasure; "the company was enjoyable"; "found her praise gratifying"; "full of happiness and pleasurable excitement"; "good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read"

reputable

adj. having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine"

gracious, beneficent, benevolent

adj. doing or producing good; "the most beneficent regime in history"

honorable, honourable

adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"

moral, ethical, just, honorable, honourable

adj. adhering to ethical and moral principles; "it seems ethical and right"; "followed the only honorable course of action"; "had the moral courage to stand alone"

fair, just

adj. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"

fair, just, equitable

adj. "honest wages for an honest day's work"

fair, impartial

adj. showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"

right

adj. in conformance with justice or law or morality; "do the right thing and confess"

right, correct

adj. correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right"

chaste

adj. morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"

clean, unpolluted

adj. "clean water"; "unpolluted streams"

clean, clear

adj. free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"

comely, decent, decorous, becoming, seemly, comme il faut

adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"

modest

adj. not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance

wholesome

adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

acceptable, satisfactory

adj. meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat"

yielding, obliging, complying

adj. (compliant)

moral

adj. concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life"

proper

adj. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"

virtuous

adj. morally excellent

meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, punctilious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

conscientious, meticulous, painstaking, scrupulous

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

specific

adj. (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident"

definite

adj. precise; explicit and clearly defined; "I want a definite answer"; "a definite statement of the terms of the will"; "a definite amount"; "definite restrictions on the sale of alcohol"; "the wedding date is now definite"; "a definite drop in attendance"

rigorous, strict

adj. rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

exact

adj. marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target"

Victorian, prim, prissy, square-toed, puritanical, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

sick, nauseated, queasy, sickish

adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

Synonyms (65)

winning, appealing, fetching, taking

adj. very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"

attention-getting, catchy

adj. likely to attract attention; "a catchy title for a movie"

bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating

adj. capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman"

charismatic, magnetic

adj. possessing an extraordinary ability to attract; "a charismatic leader"; "a magnetic personality"

charming, engaging, piquant

adj. attracting or delighting; "an engaging frankness"; "a piquant face with large appealing eyes"

cunning, cute

adj. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby"

dinky

adj. (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat"

dishy

adj. (informal British) good-looking; "a dishy blonde"

hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding

adj. attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"

personable

adj. (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality

photogenic

adj. looking attractive in photographs

prepossessing

adj. creating a favorable impression; "strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance"

winsome

adj. charming in a childlike or naive way

pleasant

adj. affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"

diacritic, discerning, diacritical

adj. capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel

discriminatory, discriminative

adj. capable of making fine distinctions

eclectic

adj. selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

good

adj. generally admired; "good taste"

selective

adj. tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown

fair

adj. more than adequate in quality; "respectable work"

presentable

adj. fit to be seen; "presentable clothes"

worthy

adj. meriting respect or esteem; "the worthy gentleman"

accurate

adj. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"

dead, unerring

adj. unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

fine, subtle

adj. minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction"

hairsplitting, finespun

adj. developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"

pinpoint

adj. meticulously precise; "pinpoint accuracy"

very

adj. precisely as stated; "the very center of town"

particular, choosy, choosey

adj. difficult to please

meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, punctilious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

exacting

adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

fussy, old-maidish, old-womanish

adj. primly fastidious

Antonyms (5)

nasty

adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

mean, dirty, spiteful, hateful

adj. characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

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