nicer
nicer is the comparative form of nice.
Meaning of nice
Adjective
nice (comparative nicer, superlative nicest)
- Pleasant, satisfactory, complimentary.
- "It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- appetising, appetizing, delicious, moreish, scrummy, scrumptious, tasty
- Of a person: friendly, attractive.
- You weren’t nice to me this morning.
- Synonyms:
- charming
- Respectable; virtuous.
- What is a nice person like you doing in a place like this?
- Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.
- The soup is nice and hot.
- Giving a favorable review or having a favorable impression.
- For Candy Crush Saga, the critics were far nicer than the audience (7.9/10 vs. 3.1/10).
- Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly
- a nice way of putting it
Proper noun capitalized: NICER
NICER
- Initialism of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, a future NASA Explorers program Mission of Opportunity.
Phrases with nicer
Questions about nicer
- What is nicer the comparative form of?
- Nicer is the comparative form of nice.
- What part of speech is nicer?
- Nicer is a proper noun.
Words near nicer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nicer (page history and authors); NICER (page history and authors); nice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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