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Delicious vs. Nice

Delicious and Nice Definitions

Delicious

Either of two varieties of apple, the Golden Delicious or the Red Delicious.

Nice

Pleasing and agreeable in nature
Had a nice time.
A nice person.

Delicious

Highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell.

Nice

Having a pleasant or attractive appearance
A nice dress.
A nice face.

Delicious

Very pleasant; delightful
A delicious revenge.

Nice

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness
A nice gesture.
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Delicious

Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.

Nice

Of good character and reputation; respectable.

Delicious

Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind.
The irony is delicious!

Nice

Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy.

Delicious

(slang) Having tremendous sex appeal.

Nice

Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle
A nice distinction.
A nice sense of style.
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Delicious

Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
Some delicious landscape.
One draught of spring's delicious air.
Were not his words delicious?

Nice

Done with delicacy and skill
A nice bit of craft.

Delicious

Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.
Others, lastly, of a more delicious and airy spirit, retire themselves to the enjoyments of ease and luxury.
Like the rich fruit he sings, delicious in decay.
No spring, nor summer, on the mountain seen,Smiles with gay fruits or with delightful green.

Nice

Used as an intensive with and
Nice and warm.

Delicious

Variety of sweet eating apples

Nice

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

Greatly pleasing or entertaining;
A delightful surprise
The comedy was delightful
A delicious joke

Nice

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

Delicious

Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

Nice

Pleasant, satisfactory.

Nice

Of a person: friendly, attractive.

Nice

Respectable; virtuous.
What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?

Nice

Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
The soup is nice and hot.

Nice

Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly
A nice way of putting it

Nice

(obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.

Nice

Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.

Nice

(dated) Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.

Nice

(obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.

Nice

Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.

Nice

(obsolete) Easily injured; delicate; dainty.

Nice

(obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.

Nice

(colloquial) Nicely.
Children, play nice.
He dresses real nice.

Nice

Used to signify a job well done.
Nice! I couldn't have done better.

Nice

Used to signify approval.
Is that your new car? Nice!

Nice

Niceness.

Nice

To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

Nice

Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
But say that we ben wise and nothing nice.

Nice

Of trifling moment; unimportant; trivial.
The letter was not nice, but full of chargeOf dear import.

Nice

Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy; fastidious in small matters.
Curious not knowing, not exact but nice.
And to tasteThink not I shall be nice.

Nice

Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.
Dear love, continue nice and chaste.
A nice and subtile happiness.

Nice

Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions; distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment.

Nice

Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
The difference is too niceWhere ends the virtue, or begins the vice.

Nice

Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a nice party; a nice excursion; a nice day; a nice sauce, etc.

Nice

Pleasant; kind; as, a nice person.

Nice

Well-mannered; well-behaved; as, nice children.
He's making a list, checking it twice.Gonna find out who's naughty or nice Santa Claus is coming to town.

Nice

A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

Nice

Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance;
What a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty
Nice manners
A nice dress
A nice face
A nice day
Had a nice time at the party
The corn and tomatoes are nice today

Nice

Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous;
From a decent family
A nice girl

Nice

Done with delicacy and skill;
A nice bit of craft
A job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer
A nice shot

Nice

Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted;
Too nice about his food to take to camp cooking
So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow

Nice

Noting distinctions with nicety;
A discriminating interior designer
A nice sense of color
A nice point in the argument

Nice

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness;
A nice gesture

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