decent vs nice

decent

adj
  • Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness. 

  • Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen. 

  • Significant; substantial. 

  • Fair; good enough; okay. 

  • Conforming to perceived standards of good taste. 

nice

adj
  • Respectable; virtuous. 

  • Of a person: friendly, attractive. 

  • Pleasant, satisfactory. 

  • Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. 

  • Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. 

  • Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly 

noun
  • niceness. 

intj
  • Used to signify approval. 

  • Used to signify a job well done. 

adv
  • Nicely. 

verb
  • To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. 

How often have the words decent and nice occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )