pretty
IPA: prˈɪti
noun
- A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
- Something that is pretty.
- A surname.
- Alternative form of Preeti; A female given name from Sanskrit [A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.]
verb
- To make pretty; to beautify
adjective
- Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
- Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
- (often derogatory) Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.
- (UK, sometimes derogatory) Effeminate.
- Cunning; clever, skilful.
- (dated) Moderately large; considerable.
- (dated) Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).
- (ironic) Awkward, unpleasant, bad.
adverb
- Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
- (dialect) Prettily, in a pretty manner.
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Examples of "pretty" in Sentences
- The parry is pretty much the same.
- It's pretty much at the whim of the maker.
- It is pretty much the definition of diligence.
- That's pretty much the definition of obstructive.
- That's pretty much the same as condemning the raid.
- Racism and xenophobia are pretty much the same thing.
- I'm pretty much lackadaisical about everything on here.
- I'm pretty much at the end of the tether with the NLP article.
- Like, his word pretty much determines the course of our lives.
- _Singing, Laughing all, Singing Laughing all, like pretty pretty_ Poll.
- The title pretty much sums up the goal of the book: guilt by association.
- That destroys the code and renders the information pretty much unintelligible.
- That pretty much explains the popularity of one and the obscurity of the other.
- Wow..so this is the first time that I found your site..pretty said considering I thought I was pretty smart!
- II. iii.28 (195,3) _With, every thing that pretty bin_] is very properly restored by Hanmer, for _pretty is_; but he too grammatically reads,
- The title pretty much says it all but be prepared for a lot of twists and turns in the storyline; surprise elements that only a talented voice such as Cairo could come up with.
- If you talk of bathing, they will advise you to _dook oonder_; and should a mother present her baby to you she will call it her _smook barn_, her pretty bairn or child, _smook_ being the Norse word for _pretty_.
- T. e of the pretty O F E N G L A N D* 245 pretty dairy plats that belonged - to the abbot; we take with us Darelbury, a pretty* parifti - church, and by the fide of it a fair houfe and de - mefnc of a long continued dcfcent of the Daniels, and now Mr. Daniel's -, and Prefton, called Pref - ton on the Hill.