Dictionary entry

Niceness

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Definition

nice /naÇs/ adj ( -r, -st ) ၁။ (က) ေကာင္းေသာ။ ခ်ဳိသာေသာ။ သာယာေသာ။ အရသာရိွေသာ။ a nice day/ smile/ remark ❍ nice weather/ children ❍ That tastes nice! ❍ One of the nicest things about her is her sense of humour. ❍ We had a nice time at the beach. ❍ Nice to meet you! ❍ I asked him in the nicest possible way not to park in front of my garage. (ခ) ~ (to sb) သေဘာေကာင္းေသာ။ ေဖာ္ေရြေသာ။ It's very nice of you to let me stay. ❍ He's not very nice to her when he's had a few drinks. Compare NASTY ၂။ (ironic) (ေငါ့သံျဖင့္) ေကာင္း လိုက္တဲ့။ This is a nice mess you've got us into! ❍ That's a nice thing to say! ၃။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာ။ a nice distinction ❍ a nice point of law (ie one that may be difficult to decide). ၄။ (usu in negative expressions) ႐ိုးသား ေျဖာင့္မတ္ေသာ။ She's not too nice in her business methods. ၅။ (approv) အရသာရိွေသာ။ ဇိမ္ရိွေသာ။ a nice comfy bed ❍ a nice cold drink ❍ You need a nice hot bath. ❏ do nicely [IDM] (esp in the continuous tenses) ဟန္က်ေနသည္။ Her new business is doing very nicely. ❍ The patient is doing nicely. niceness n [U] ❏ nice and [IDM] (infml approv) (နာမဝိေသသနႏွင့္ ႀကိယာဝိေသသနေရွ႕၌သံုးသည္။ ) စိတ္ခ်မ္းသာစရာ။ It was nice and cool in the woods. ❍ Everybody arrived nice and early. ❏ nicely adv ၁။ သပ္သပ္ရပ္ရပ္။ ပိုင္ပိုင္ႏိုင္ႏိုင္။ nicely dressed ❍ It was a difficult thing to say, but he put it very nicely. ၂။ (infml) ေကာင္းစြာ။ အံကိုက္။ ခ်ိန္ကိုက္၍။ That will suit me nicely. ❍ My tomato plants are coming along very nicely. ❍ The programme is nicely timed to coincide with the opening of the exhibition. ❏ nice work if you can get it [IDM] (မလိုတမာသေဘာ ျဖင့္ သံုးသည္။ ) ရရင္ေတာ့ေကာင္းတာေပါ့။ ‘He was paid £200 for a 10-minute speech. ’ ‘Nice work if you can get it!’

Examples

  1. Your hair looks nice.
  2. London is a much nicer place to live nowadays.
  3. A nice cup of tea
  4. There’s a nice view from the upstairs window.
  5. She’s a nice girl.
  6. [it is nice of someone (to do something)] : It was nice of you to come.
  7. [nice to] : He’s always been nice to me.
  8. ‘Mark hasn’t invited you.’ ‘Well
  9. that’s very nice
  10. isn’t it?’
  11. Nice warm socks
  12. A nice big smile
  13. [nice and warm/comfortable/clean etc] : It’s nice and quiet in here.
  14. I like my coffee nice and strong.
  15. These are nice distinctions that are extremely technical.
  16. A nice little turn from the United striker
  17. Niceness can be seen as a sign of weakness.