Nice crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Nice” are GOOD, with 4 letters. Below are 14 answers from 4 to 11 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

GOOD 4 letters · adjective

having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified “good news from the hospital”

DECENT 6 letters · adjective

socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous “from a decent family”

PRECISE 7 letters · adjective

sharply exact or accurate or delimited “a precise mind”

PLEASANT 8 letters · adjective

affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings “we had a pleasant evening together”

RELATABLE 9 letters · adjective

having a manner or nature that is easy to relate to

FASTIDIOUS 10 letters · adjective

giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness “a fastidious and incisive intellect”

RESPECTABLE 11 letters · adjective

characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals “a respectable woman”

Telling them apart

With 6 squares, DECENT, POLITE, DAINTY and PRISSY all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: E → DECENT · O → POLITE · A → DAINTY · R → PRISSY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 8 squares, PLEASANT, GRACIOUS and SKILLFUL all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: P → PLEASANT · G → GRACIOUS · S → SKILLFUL. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 9 squares, RELATABLE, COURTEOUS and SQUEAMISH all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: R → RELATABLE · C → COURTEOUS · S → SQUEAMISH. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “nice” means

• adjective: pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance (“what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty”)
• adjective: socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous (“a nice girl”)
• adjective: done with delicacy and skill (“a nice bit of craft”)
• adjective: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted (“too nice about his food to take to camp cooking”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as NICE, and words whose definition is NICE. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.