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Nice

Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.

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Similar meaning 12

Fastidious 84% connected

Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

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Fastidious 84% connected

Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Pleasant 84% connected

Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.

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Pleasant 84% connected

Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.

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Polite 84% connected

Smooth; polished.

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Polite 84% connected

Smooth; polished.

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Precise 84% connected

Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.

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Precise 84% connected

Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.

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Respectable 84% connected

Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

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Respectable 84% connected

Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

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Derivationally related 4

Niceness 74% connected

Quality or state of being nice.

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Niceness 74% connected

Quality or state of being nice.

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Politeness 74% connected

High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.

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Politeness 74% connected

High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.

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Attribute 2

Niceness 66% connected

Quality or state of being nice.

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Niceness 66% connected

Quality or state of being nice.

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See also 2

Pleasant 66% connected

Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.

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Pleasant 66% connected

Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.

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Synonym 7

Courteous 92% connected

Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dainty 92% connected

Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Decent 92% connected

Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.

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Gracious 92% connected

Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Overnice 92% connected

Excessively nice; fastidious.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Skillful 92% connected

Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Squeamish 92% connected

Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling impropriet…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Awful 94% connected

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Awful 94% connected

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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