NICE


Meaning of NICE in English

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , feel , look , seem , smell , sound , taste

I felt ~ and warm.

That bread smells ~.

His mother sounded very ~ on the phone.

▪ make sth

I cleaned the room to make it ~ for the others when they came home.

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ awfully , exceptionally , incredibly , terribly ( esp. BrE )

an awfully ~ man

▪ perfectly , thoroughly

I'm sure she's perfectly ~ really.

▪ genuinely , truly

▪ not particularly

It had not been a particularly ~ experience.

▪ enough

Some of the boys were ~ enough, but she didn't want to go out with them.

PREPOSITION

▪ about

He was incredibly ~ about it, though I am sure it caused him a lot of trouble.

▪ for

It's ~ for her to get out more.

▪ to

Can't you be ~ to each other for once?

PHRASES

▪ ~ little

It's a ~ little place you have here.

Nice is used with these nouns: ↑ atmosphere , ↑ bath , ↑ bit , ↑ blend , ↑ bloke , ↑ bonus , ↑ break , ↑ bruise , ↑ bump , ↑ bunch , ↑ catch , ↑ change , ↑ chap , ↑ chat , ↑ Christmas , ↑ clothes , ↑ comment , ↑ complement , ↑ complexion , ↑ compliment , ↑ day , ↑ distraction , ↑ diversion , ↑ evening , ↑ feature , ↑ feeling , ↑ fellow , ↑ fit , ↑ flat , ↑ gesture , ↑ girl , ↑ guy , ↑ home , ↑ hotel , ↑ idea , ↑ irony , ↑ job , ↑ kid , ↑ lad , ↑ lady , ↑ letter , ↑ lunch , ↑ man , ↑ nap , ↑ neighbourhood , ↑ people , ↑ person , ↑ personality , ↑ place , ↑ rest , ↑ scenery , ↑ selection , ↑ shade , ↑ sideline , ↑ smell , ↑ story , ↑ surprise , ↑ swim , ↑ taste , ↑ thing , ↑ thought , ↑ touch , ↑ trip , ↑ try , ↑ tune , ↑ twist , ↑ vacation , ↑ weather , ↑ woman , ↑ word , ↑ work

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .