Nicely vs Pleasantly - What's the difference?
nicely | pleasantly | Synonyms |
(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.
In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.
(degree) Lightly
(obsolete) Ludicrously.
Nicely is a synonym of pleasantly.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between nicely and pleasantly
is that nicely is (obsolete) fastidiously; carefully while pleasantly is (obsolete) ludicrously.As adverbs the difference between nicely and pleasantly
is that nicely is (obsolete) fastidiously; carefully while pleasantly is in a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.nicely
English
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’.
pleasantly
English
Alternative forms
* pleasauntlie (obsolete) * plesantlie (obsolete) * pleasauntly (obsolete) * plesantly (obsolete) * plesauntly (obsolete)Adverb
(en adverb)- He smiled pleasantly at passersby.
- They were pleasantly surprised at the result.