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NICE The most overused, boring and lacking in any real meaning of any word in the English language.......please try to come up with a more meaningful word......."nice" renders all inane. Nice (ns) A city of southeast France on the Mediterranean Sea northeast of Cannes. Controlled by various royal houses after the 13th century, the city was finally ceded to France in 1860. It is the leading resort city of the French Riviera. Population: 348,000. nice (ns) adj. nic·er, nic·est 1. Pleasing and agreeable in nature: had a nice time. 2. Having a pleasant or attractive appearance: a nice dress; a nice face. 3. Exhibiting courtesy and politeness: a nice gesture. 4. Of good character and reputation; respectable. 5. Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy. 6. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle: a nice distinction; a nice sense of style. 7. Done with delicacy and skill: a nice bit of craft. 8. Used as an intensive with and: nice and warm. 9. Obsolete a. Wanton; profligate: "For when mine hours/Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives/Of me for jests" (Shakespeare). b. Affectedly modest; coy: "Ere . . . /The nice Morn on th' Indian steep,/From her cabin'd loop-hole peep" (John Milton). [Middle English, foolish, from Old French, from Latin nescius, ignorant, from nescre, to be ignorant; see nescience.] Based on a true story. |
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Nice is rather an innocuous word, isn't it.
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Nice blog. GBU, Gavin
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5/19/2013 6:09 am |
Nice has lost out to awesome as being the most overused word.
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5/20/2013 7:07 am |
I've been to Nice several times. My biggest surprise was that the beach is composed of stones rather than sand as on other parts of the coast.
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