pretty

Plural: pretties

Adjective Satellite

• pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
  • "pretty girl"
  • "pretty song"
  • "pretty room"
• (used ironically) unexpectedly bad
  • "a pretty mess"
  • "a pretty kettle of fish"

Adverb

• to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
  • "pretty big"
  • "pretty bad"

Adj

• Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
• Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
• Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.
• Effeminate.
• Cunning; clever, skilful.
• Moderately large; considerable.
• Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).
• Awkward, unpleasant, bad.
• Matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.

Adv

• Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
• Prettily, in a pretty manner.

Noun

• A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
• Something that is pretty.

Verb

Verb Forms: prettied, prettying, pretties

• To make something attractive or pleasing.
• To make pretty; to beautify

Adjective

• Pleasing or attractive to the eye, especially in a delicate way.

Examples

• Sometimes you just need to PRETTY up a boring board with a good, solid word, even if it’s not a bingo.
• That six-letter word was a PRETTY play, but it didn’t block the triple word score.
• We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.

Synonyms

fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, somewhat

Antonyms

immoderately, unreasonably, ugly

Related Words

PRETTILY

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