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Sensibly vs Nicely - What's the difference?

sensibly | nicely |

As adverbs the difference between sensibly and nicely

is that sensibly is in a sensible manner; in a way that shows good sense while nicely is (obsolete) fastidiously; carefully.

sensibly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a sensible manner; in a way that shows good sense.
  • (dated, or, formal) In a sensible manner; in a way that can be sensed, noticed: perceptibly.
  • * Roscommon
    • Time sensibly all things impairs.
  • * 1905 , in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society , volume 31, page 216:
    • 4. P. californicum n. sp.
    Very similar in color and sculpture to seriatum''. The form is, however, sensibly narrower, averaging very nearly two and one half times as long as wide, while in ''seriatum the length is ahout two and three- tenths times the width.

    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.