" nice "

1: giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses;

  * e.g., " ... a cool glass of lemonade sure would be nice "

•  Synonyms : 

•  agreeable,

•  blessed,

•  congenial,

•  darling,

•  delectable,

•  delicious,

•  delightful,

•  delightsome,

•  dreamy,

•  dulcet,

•  enjoyable,

•  felicitous,

•  good,

•  grateful,

•  gratifying,

•  heavenly,

•  jolly,

•  luscious,

•  palatable,

•  pleasant,

•  pleasing,

•  pleasurable,

•  pretty,

•  satisfying,

•  savory,

•  sweet,

•  tasty,

•  welcome

•  Antonyms : 

•  disagreeable,

•  pleasureless,

•  unpalatable,

•  unpleasant,

•  unwelcome

2: following the established traditions of refined society and good taste;

  * e.g., " ... had nice manners "

•  Synonyms : 

•  befitting,

•  correct,

•  de rigueur,

•  decent,

•  decorous,

•  genteel,

•  polite,

•  proper,

•  respectable,

•  seemly

•  Antonyms : 

•  improper,

•  inappropriate,

•  incorrect,

•  indecent,

•  indecorous,

•  indelicate,

•  unbecoming,

•  ungenteel,

•  unseemly

3: hard to please;

  * e.g., " ... she's far too nice about her clothes for me to even consider giving her clothing for her birthday "

•  Synonyms : 

•  choosy,

•  dainty,

•  delicate,

•  demanding,

•  exacting,

•  fastidious,

•  finical,

•  finicking,

•  finicky,

•  fussbudgety,

•  fussy,

•  old-maidish,

•  particular,

•  pernickety,

•  persnickety,

•  picky

•  Antonyms : 

•  undemanding,

•  unfastidious,

•  unfussy

1: given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals;

  * e.g., " ... the novel's wildly off base portrayal of 18th-century aristocrats as nice-nelly exemplars of decorum "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bluenosed,

•  prim,

•  prudish,

•  puritanical,

•  straitlaced,

•  Victorian

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a person who is greatly concerned with seemly behavior and morality especially regarding sexual matters;

  * e.g., " ... some nice nelly bowdlerized this collection of wartime ditties that were lustily sung by the men around the campfire "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bluenose,

•  moralist,

•  Mrs. Grundy,

•  prude,

•  puritan,

•  wowser

•  Antonyms : 

•  immoralist

1: a tendency to care a great deal about seemly behavior and morals especially in sexual matters;

  * e.g., " ... a misguided nice-nellyism prompted the city-owned art museum to cancel its scheduled exhibit on the nude in photography "

•  Synonyms : 

•  moralism,

•  prudery,

•  prudishness,

•  puritanism

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a person who is greatly concerned with seemly behavior and morality especially regarding sexual matters;

  * e.g., " ... some nice nelly bowdlerized this collection of wartime ditties that were lustily sung by the men around the campfire "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bluenoses,

•  moralists,

•  Mrs. Grundys,

•  prudes,

•  puritans,

•  wowsers

•  Antonyms : 

•  immoralists

1: to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials;

  * e.g., " ... will you help me make the dough for the cookies? "

•  Synonyms : 

•  fabricate,

•  fashion,

•  form,

•  frame,

•  manufacture,

•  produce

•  Antonyms : 

•  demount,

•  disassemble,

•  dismantle,

•  dismember,

•  knock down,

•  strike,

•  take down,

•  tear down

2: to obtain (as a goal) through effort;

  * e.g., " ... we finally made it! "

•  Synonyms : 

•  achieve,

•  attain,

•  bag,

•  chalk up,

•  clock (up),

•  gain,

•  hit,

•  log,

•  notch (up),

•  rack up,

•  ring up,

•  score,

•  win

•  Antonyms : 

•  repeal,

•  rescind,

•  revoke

3: to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind);

  * e.g., " ... the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over "

•  Synonyms : 

•  beget,

•  breed,

•  bring,

•  bring about,

•  bring on,

•  catalyze,

•  cause,

•  create,

•  do,

•  draw on,

•  effect,

•  effectuate,

•  engender,

•  generate,

•  induce,

•  invoke,

•  occasion,

•  produce,

•  prompt,

•  result (in),

•  spawn,

•  translate (into),

•  work,

•  yield

•  Antonyms : 

•  forfeit,

•  lose