nice

A1 · Beginner

adj. kind, friendly, or polite.

adj. describing a person who is kind, amiable, or socially agreeable.

“Our new neighbour is very nice and even helped us move our boxes.”

“She was known for being exceptionally nice to junior staff, often taking the time to mentor them during her lunch breaks.”

C1 · Advanced Formal · Literary

adj. showing or needing great care, detail, or a small difference.

adj. requiring or characterized by great precision, delicacy, or subtle discernment.

“There is a nice distinction between being confident and being arrogant.”

“The legal argument relied on a nice point of law regarding the exact timing of the contract's expiration.”

C2 · Proficiency Computing Technical

v. to change how much of a computer's power a program uses.

v. to invoke a utility that changes the priority level of a process in a multitasking operating system.

“You should nice that background task so it doesn't slow down your game.”

“The administrator decided to nice the data-heavy indexing process to ensure the web server remained responsive to user requests.”