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nice

adjective
  1. To one's liking: agreeable, congenial, favorable, good, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcome. See like
  2. Having pleasant desirable qualities: good. Scots: bonny, braw. See good
  3. Well above average: good, high-grade. See good, ability
  4. Conforming to accepted standards: becoming, befitting, comely, comme il faut, correct, decent, decorous, de rigueur, proper, respectable, right, seemly. See courtesy
  5. Morally beyond reproach, especially in sexual conduct: chaste, decent, modest, pure, virgin, virginal, virtuous. See good, restraint, sex
  6. Very difficult to please: choosy, dainty, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, particular, persnickety, squeamish. Informal: picky. See accept
  7. Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety or precision: delicate, fine 1, subtle. See precise
  8. So slight as to be difficult to notice or appreciate: delicate, fine 1, finespun, refined, subtle. See big
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