
nice | nice: adj. 1 pleasant, agreeable, amiable, amicable, friendly, cordial, warm, gracious, warm-hearted, kind, kindly, outgoing, charming, genial, delightful, courteous, polite, refined, gentlemanly, ladylike, winsome, likeable, attractive: They are one of the nicest couples I have ever met. 2 good, satisfactory, commendable, worthy, worthwhile: The manager said that I had done a nice job in preparing the specifications. 3 good, fine, superb, superior, attentive, sharp, acute, keen, careful, exact, exacting, rigorous; precise, accurate, unerring, scrupulous, meticulous, punctilious, discriminating, discriminative, perceptive, delicate, fastidious, flawless, faultless, subtle, strict, close, small, slight, minute, complex, complicated, intricate: A diamond cutter must have a nice eye for detail. It is difficult to maintain nice distinctions of meaning among certain words, given that people are so careless with their speech these days. 4 delicate, subtle, sensitive, exquisite, hair-splitting, over-nice, fine, critical, ticklish, dangerous, precarious, perilous, Colloq hairy: The matter of Hong Kong requires some nice political negotiations. 5 trim, well turned out, tidy, neat, fine: Don''t you want to look nice for your birthday party? 6 nice and - pleasantly, delightfully, pleasingly, agreeably, enjoyably, gratifyingly, satisfyingly, comfortably: It''s nice and warm by the fire.
niche | niche: n. 1 recess, hollow, alcove, nook: A small statue of Buddha stood in a niche in the wall. 2 place, position, Colloq slot, pigeon-hole: Humphrey has finally found a niche for himself working as a tax inspector.
nick | nick: n. 1 cut, notch, chip, gouge, gash, scratch, dent, indentation, flaw, mark, blemish, defect: Be careful of that nick in the rim of the glass. 2 jail or Brit also gaol; police station: The police took him to the nick to help them with their inquiries. --v. 3 steal, purloin, take, appropriate, make off with, Colloq pinch: Who nicked my biro? 4 arrest, nab, take in, Colloq collar: Alan was nicked for possession of marijuana. 5 nick off. depart, go or run off or away, take off, take to one''s heels, show a clean pair of heels, beat a (hasty) retreat, Colloq scarper, make tracks, beat it: The cops were coming so I nicked off.
nickname | nickname: n. 1 pet name, sobriquet, epithet, agnomen, Colloq moniker or monicker, handle: Her real name is Josephine, but her nickname is Dusty. 2 diminutive: A common nickname for Terence is Terry.
nifty | nifty: adj. 1 smart, stylish, modish, chic, spruce: I borrowed a nifty outfit from Grandma for the flapper''s costume ball. 2 healthy, in good form, spry, energetic, agile, quick: I''m not as nifty as I was in 1950. 3 excellent, neat, great, splendid, fine, clever, skilful, apt, suitable: Having a picnic was a nifty idea. That was as nifty a bit of bargaining as I ''ve ever seen. 4 satisfactory, satisfying, good, profitable, substantial, considerable: He made a nifty profit on the sale of his house in Chelsea.
niggle | niggle: v. find fault, nag, carp, fuss, cavil, criticize; complain, Colloq grouse, Slang bitch, US kvetch: I do wish she would stop niggling when we cannot do anything about the situation.
niggling | niggling: adj. 1 irritating, worrying, worrisome, irksome, vexing, vexatious, annoying, troublesome: There are a few niggling matters that I must see my accountant about. 2 petty, nugatory, trifling, trivial, fussy, insignificant, unimportant, inconsequential, frivolous, Colloq piddling, nit-picking, US and Canadian picayune: Bill always ignores the core of a problem and occupies himself with the niggling details.
night | night: n. 1 (Stygian or Cimmerian) dark or darkness or blackness or gloom; night-time, shades of night, Formal tenebrosity or tenebrousness or tenebriousness: The strange creature slunk off into the night. 2 nightfall, gloaming, twilight, dusk, eventide, evening, evensong, edge of night, sunset, sundown, end of day, vespers: When night comes, one can hear the frogs calling from the pond. 3 night and day. all the time, continually, incessantly, unceasingly, continuously, unendingly, endlessly, round-the-clock, ceaselessly, non-stop: Those animals keep up their caterwauling night and day.
nightly | nightly: adj. 1 every night, each night, each and every night, night after night: The watchman does his nightly rounds. 2 night-time, nocturnal, bedtime: A nightly glass of warm milk promotes sound sleep. --adv. 3 every night, each night, nights, after dark, after sunset; nocturnally: The bird sings nightly outside my window.
nightmarish | nightmarish: adj. frightening, terrifying, alarming, horrific, horrible, dreadful, awful, ghastly, dismaying, agonizing, worrisome, exasperating, frustrating, Kafkaesque, Colloq creepy, scary: Dealing with officialdom can be a nightmarish experience when abroad.
nil | nil: n. nothing, zero, nought or naught, aught or ought, Tennis, table tennis, etc. love, Cricket duck, US goose-egg, Slang US zip: Oxford United: 4; Queens Park Rangers: Nil.
nimble | nimble: adj. 1 agile, lively, active, light, lithe, limber, spry, sprightly, brisk, smart, energetic, rapid, quick, swift, adroit, deft, dexterous; nimble-fingered; nimble-footed: She''s as nimble as a cat on a hot tin roof. 2 agile, alert, acute, nimble-witted, quick-witted, ready-witted, intelligent, keen, sharp; smart, brilliant, sparkling, scintillating, coruscating: Despite his inability to make decisions, Desmond has quite a nimble mind.
nip� | nip�: v. 1 bite, nibble; pinch, snip, clip, cut, snap, tweak, twitch, trim, lop, crop, shear; grip, squeeze: The dog nipped the postman''s ankle. Nip off the suckers to promote healthy growth of the tomatoes. 2 nip in the bud. stop, arrest, check, thwart, frustrate, stymie, forestall; quash, squelch, suppress, extinguish, put down: The revolt of the army officers was nipped in the bud. --n. 3 bite, nibble, morsel, pinch, snip: The deer had taken nips off the tips of the shrubbery. 4 chill, coldness, iciness, sharpness, tang, bite: There''s a definite wintry nip in the air tonight.
nip� | nip�: n. taste, drop, sip, soup�on, portion, swallow, gulp, mouthful, finger, Brit peg, tot, draught, Scots dram, US draft, Colloq snort, shot: I had a few nips of brandy to ward off the cold.
