nice vs stern

nice

adj
  • Of a person: friendly, attractive. 

  • Pleasant, satisfactory. 

  • Respectable; virtuous. 

  • 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 

adv
  • Nicely. 

noun
  • niceness. 

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

intj
  • Used to signify approval. 

  • Used to signify a job well done. 

stern

adj
  • Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. 

  • Grim and forbidding in appearance. 

noun
  • A bird, the black tern. 

  • The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog. 

  • The hinder part of anything. 

  • The post of management or direction. 

  • The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. 

verb
  • To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water. 

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