Beautifully vs Nicely - What's the difference?
beautifully | nicely |
In a beautiful manner.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
(obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
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:
Pleasantly; satisfactorily.
As adverbs the difference between beautifully and nicely
is that beautifully is in a beautiful manner while nicely is fastidiously; carefully.beautifully
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Adverb
(en adverb)- Tom Cleverley had one of his better games, the highlight being a beautifully weighted pass to send Walcott away for his goal, and Rooney probably did as well as might have been anticipated given this was his first start in a competitive match since April.
nicely
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Adverb
(en adverb)- 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 [...].
- 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’.
