Définition "Nice" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

Nice (French) n a city in SE France, on the Mediterranean: a leading resort of the French Riviera; founded by Phocaeans from Marseille in about the 3rd century b.c. Pop.: 345674 (1990)

nice adj

1 pleasant or commendable
a nice day

2 kind or friendly
a nice gesture of help

3 good or satisfactory
they made a nice job of it

4 subtle, delicate, or discriminating
a nice point in the argument

5 precise; skilful
a nice fit

6 Now rare fastidious; respectable
he was not too nice about his methods

7 Obsolete

a foolish or ignorant

b delicate

c shy; modest

d wanton

8 ♦ nice and pleasingly
it's nice and cool
  (C13 (originally: foolish): from Old French nice simple, silly, from Latin nescius ignorant, from nescire to be ignorant; see nescience)
♦ nicely  adv
♦ niceness  n
♦ nicish  adj

nice-looking adj
Informal attractive in appearance; pretty or handsome