pretty
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Adverb (1)
- to certain extent or degree“pretty big”“pretty bad”“jolly decent of him”“the shoes are priced reasonably”“he is fairly clever with computers”Synonyms: reasonablymoderatelyjollysomewhatfairlymiddlingpassably
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Adjective especially of women and children
- Spanish
- guapo
- French
- joli
- German
- hübsch
- Italian
- carino
- Portuguese
- bonito
- Turkish
- güzel
- Russian
- милови́дный milovídnyj
- Arabic
- جَمِيل jamīl
- Chinese
- 漂亮 piàoliang
- Dutch
- mooi
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- Polish
- ładny
- Swedish
- vacker
- Greek
- χαριτωμένος charitoménos
- Korean
- 예쁘다 yeppeuda
- Indonesian
- cantik
- Vietnamese
- xinh xắn
- Hungarian
- csinos
- Portuguese (PT)
- bonito
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 漂亮 piàoliang
- Catalan
- bonic
- Corsican
- bellu
- Czech
- hezký
- Danish
- køn
- Esperanto
- bela
- Estonian
- ilus
- Finnish
- sievä
- Georgian
- სანდომიანი sandomiani
- Hebrew
- יָפָה yafé
- Latvian
- glīts
- Lithuanian
- gražus
- Norwegian
- pen
- Romanian
- drăguț
- Scottish Gaelic
- bòidheach
- Slovenian
- lep
- Yiddish
- שיין sheyn
Adverb somewhat, fairly
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. prati, AS. prættig, prætig, crafty, sly, akin to præt, prætt, deceit, trickery, Icel. prettugr tricky, prettr a trick; probably fr. Latin, perhaps through Celtic; cf. W. praith act, deed, practice, LL. practica execution, practice, plot. See Practice.
1. Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.
This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward.— William Shakespeare
2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune. “Wavering a pretty while.” John Evelyn
3. Affectedly nice; foppish; — used in an ill sense.
The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world.— The Spectator
4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; — used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. Scottish
[He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome.— Sir Walter Scott
Synonyms: Elegant; neat; fine. See Handsome.
In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; — less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.
Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian.— Francis Atterbury
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54