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Definitions for nicely
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. nicelyadverb

    in a nice way

    "a nicely painted house"

Wiktionary

  1. nicelyadverb

    Fastidiously; carefully.

  2. nicelyadverb

    Pleasantly; satisfactorily.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Nicelyadverb

    Etymology: from nice.

    These kind of knaves in this plainness
    Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,
    Than twenty silky ducking observants
    That stretch their duties nicely. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

    What mean those ladies which, as tho’
    They were to take a clock to pieces, go
    So nicely about the bride? John Donne.

    He ought to study the grammar of his own tongue, that he may understand his own country-speech nicely, and speak it properly. John Locke.

    The next thing of which the doses ought to be nicely determined, are opiates. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

    At nicely carving shew thy wit;
    But ne’er presume to eat a bit. Jonathan Swift, Miscell.

    The inconveniences attending the best of governments, we quickly feel, and are nicely sensible of the share that we bear in them. Francis Atterbury.

Wikipedia

  1. Nicely

    Nicely is a surname.

ChatGPT

  1. nicely

    Nicely is an adverb primarily used to describe something being done in a pleasant, enjoyable, or satisfactory fashion. It can also refer to doing something with precision or accuracy. It may also signify politeness, kindness or pleasing appearance. However, its interpretation can greatly depend on the context in which it is used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nicelyadverb

    in a nice manner

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NICELY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nicely is ranked #6998 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Nicely surname appeared 4,789 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Nicely.

    88.4% or 4,236 total occurrences were White.
    6.4% or 311 total occurrences were Black.
    2.1% or 101 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.8% or 86 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 31 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.5% or 24 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'nicely' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2809

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nicely in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nicely in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of nicely in a Sentence

  1. Larissa Hirsch:

    Compliment them on things that have nothing to do with appearance: how well they shared with their brother, how nicely they stood up for their friend, how generous they were, things of that nature, trying to be supportive and positive and showing the importance of things that have less to do with appearance and more to do with the type of person you are.

  2. Joseph Petronio:

    Each was followed by recovery, rehabilitation and therapy, which he did nicely with. But by the time he bounced back from [each], the tumor had started to regrow.

  3. Petra Kvitova:

    I think it should be fun, i think she's one of the players, few players, that sort of treat you very nicely after the match no matter if she wins or loses. She always gives you a smile. Osaka comes into the event off the back of a successful run during the WTA's Asian swing. Maintaining her on-court discipline has been key, she said.

  4. Southwest President Tom Nelson:

    I think we're going to see the customers come back pretty nicely, it may be a month or two months, but they're going to come back. At this point, there's no notion of discounting Max flights.

  5. Ken Williford:

    Once a rover gets close enough to a location, we get ground-scale images that we can compare to orbital images, with Ingenuity, we now have this intermediate-scale imagery that nicely fills the gap in resolution.

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