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Nice vs. Beautiful

Nice and Beautiful Definitions

Nice

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

Beautiful

Having qualities that delight or appeal to the senses and often the mind.

Nice

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

Beautiful

Excellent; wonderful
Hit a beautiful shot from the tee.

Nice

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness
A nice gesture.

Beautiful

Used to express approval or delight.
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Nice

Of good character and reputation; respectable.

Beautiful

Attractive and possessing beauty.
Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
There's a beautiful lake by the town.

Nice

Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy.

Beautiful

Good, admirable.
He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
You've done a beautiful thing today.

Nice

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

Beautiful

(of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
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Nice

Done with delicacy and skill
A nice bit of craft.

Beautiful

Well executed.
The skater performed a beautiful axel.

Nice

Used as an intensive with and
Nice and warm.

Beautiful

Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
Hey, beautiful!

Nice

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

Beautiful

Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.
A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram.
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Nice

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

Beautiful

Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration;
A beautiful child
Beautiful country
A beautiful painting
A beautiful theory
A beautiful party

Nice

Pleasant, satisfactory.

Beautiful

Aesthetically pleasing

Nice

Of a person: friendly, attractive.

Beautiful

(of weather) highly enjoyable;
What a beautiful day

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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