nice: meaning and definitions

Pleasing and agreeable in nature: had a nice time.

Having a pleasant or attractive appearance: a nice dress; a nice face.

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness: a nice gesture.

Of good character and reputation; respectable.

Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy.

Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle: a nice distinction; a nice sense of style.

Done with delicacy and skill: a nice bit of craft.

Used as an intensive with and: nice and warm.

Obsolete Wanton; profligate: "For when mine hours/Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives/Of me for jests” ( Shakespeare).

Obsolete Affectedly modest; coy: "Ere . . . /The nice Morn on th' Indian steep,/From her cabin'd loop-hole peep” ( John Milton).