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# nicely

«nicely» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a pleasant, kind or polite way: «ask nicely»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (nicely, more nicely)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a pleasant, kind or polite way: «ask nicely». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#m1)

2) Well, in a good or satisfactory way: «the cake turned out nicely». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In manners, parents and teachers say «ask nicely», meaning use «please» and a polite voice. In everyday life, «it's coming along nicely» means it is going well. Phrases: «ask nicely», «play nicely», «doing nicely».

### examples

- If you ask nicely, you can have a biscuit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#x1)
- The children played nicely together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#x2)
- The plants are growing nicely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#x3)
- She smiled nicely at the new girl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#x4)
- My cut is healing nicely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#x5)
- The room was nicely painted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/#x6)

### note

Adverb of «nice». It describes how something is done. «Play nicely» means kindly and fairly, sharing and taking turns.

### In the corpora

- [Strict parents often find a middle way if you ask nicely.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/18/)
- [Strict parents often find a middle way if you ask nicely, like going to a party but coming home early.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents/36/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nicely» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nicely/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.