NICE, adjective [G. To eat dainties or sweetmeats] 1. Properly, soft; whence, delicate; tender; dainty; sweet or very pleasant to the taste; as a nice bit; nice food. 2. Delicate; fine; applied to texture, composition or color; as cloth of a nice texture; nice tints of color. 3. Accurate; exact; precise; as nice proportions; nice symmetry; nice workmanship; nice rules. 4. Requiring scrupulous exactness; as a nice point. 5. Perceiving the smallest difference; distinguishing accurately and minutely by perception; as a person of nice taste; hence, 6. Perceiving accurately the smallest faults, errors or irregularities; distinguishing and judging with exactness; as a nice judge of a subject; nice discernment. Our author happy in a judge so nice 7. Over scrupulous or exact. Curious, not knowing; not exact, but nice 8. Delicate; scrupulously and minutely cautious. The letter was not nice but full of charge of dear import. Dear love, continue nice and chaste. 9. Fastidious; squeamish. And to taste, think not I shall be nice 10. Delicate; easily injured. How nice the reputation of the maid! 11. Refined; as nice and subtle happiness. 12. Having lucky hits. [Not used.] 13. Weak; foolish; effeminate. 14. Trivial; unimportant. To make nice to be scrupulous.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI