Nicely vs Accurately - What's the difference?
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Nicely is a synonym of accurately. As adverbs the difference between nicely and accurately is that nicely is (obsolete) fastidiously; carefully while accurately is in an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
nicely English
Adverb
( en adverb)
(obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
- He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.
*1926 , (Ford Madox Ford), A Man Could Stand Up—'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 580:
*:An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 59:
- Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.
Pleasantly; satisfactorily.
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accurately English
Adverb
( en adverb)
In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
Related terms
* accuracy
Synonyms
* carefully
* precisely
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