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Dictionary of English - nice

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nice
Used of people, nice means 'pleasant', 'affable' (except of young women, where it also means 'conventionally well-behaved'). In other contexts nice has been so overused as a vague term of approval that it has become almost meaningless.

It is often better to be more specific: a delicious meal; a comfortable (cosy, spacious, beautiful) house; a pretty (funny, appropriate) birthday card.

Sometimes, however, the vagueness of nice is useful: that's a nice hat is all that is needed to pay a compliment, and a more specific word might reveal that your opinion of the hat's good points is not the same as the wearer's.

© From the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia.
Helicon Publishing LTD 2008.
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