Qualities
Synonyms for nice
Synonyms for nice: gracious, dainty and decent. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for nice
Interchangeable with nice, one per sense
Audited under nice's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one nice carries in that sense.
- graciousadjective, in the sense "exhibiting courtesy and politeness"
- daintyadjective, in the sense "excessively fastidious and easily disgusted"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name nice as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- decentdecent is an adjective in the sense "socially or conventionally correct"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under nice and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
exhibiting courtesy and politeness
A nice gesture.
The true synonym
gracious
Same sentence, swapped: A gracious gesture.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for nice in the sentence quoted.
- skillful
- squeamish
- even
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
Too nice about his food to take to camp cooking.
The true synonym
dainty
Same sentence, swapped: Too dainty about his food to take to camp cooking.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- decent
- courteous
- kind
Where nice turns up in the game
nice is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where nice is the trap
- fineadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is okay, in the sense "being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition", so nice is there to be ruled out.
Play nice
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nice reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. nice carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.