pretty
adjective
[ ˈprɪti ]
• (of a person, especially a woman or child) attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful.
• "a pretty little girl with an engaging grin"
Similar:
attractive,
lovely,
good-looking,
nice-looking,
fetching,
prepossessing,
appealing,
charming,
delightful,
nice,
engaging,
pleasing,
darling,
sweet,
dear,
adorable,
lovable,
winning,
winsome,
cute,
as pretty as a picture,
dainty,
graceful,
handsome,
well favoured,
personable,
beautiful,
glamorous,
gorgeous,
ravishing,
stunning,
bewitching,
alluring,
chocolate-box,
bonny,
easy on the eye,
adorbs,
beauteous,
fair,
comely,
• used ironically to express annoyance or displeasure.
• "he led me a pretty dance"
pretty
adverb
• to a moderately high degree; fairly.
• "he looked pretty fit for his age"
Similar:
quite,
rather,
somewhat,
fairly,
reasonably,
moderately,
comparatively,
relatively,
tolerably,
passably,
adequately,
satisfactorily,
decently,
respectably,
kind of,
sort of,
pretty
noun
• an attractive thing, especially a trinket.
• "he buys her lots of pretties—bangles and rings"
pretty
verb
• make pretty or attractive.
• "she'll be all prettied up and ready to go in an hour"
Similar:
beautify,
make attractive,
make pretty,
prettify,
pretty up,
adorn,
ornament,
embellish,
smarten,
glamorize,
prink,
preen,
primp,
put make-up on,
do oneself up,
tart oneself up,
Origin:
Old English prættig ; related to Middle Dutch pertich ‘brisk, clever’, obsolete Dutch prettig ‘humorous, sporty’, from a West Germanic base meaning ‘trick’. The sense development ‘deceitful, cunning, clever, skilful, admirable, pleasing, nice’ has parallels in adjectives such as canny, fine, nice, etc.
pretty please
• used as a wheedling form of request.
