pretty

pretty
    adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
           big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
           priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
           [syn: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {pretty}, {jolly},
           {somewhat}, {fairly}, {middling}, {passably}] [ant:
           {immoderately}, {unreasonably}]
    adj 1: pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty
           girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
    2: (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a
       pretty kettle of fish"
    

Pretty \Pret"ty\, a. [Compar. {Prettier}; superl. {Prettiest}.]
   [OE. prati, AS. pr[ae]ttig, pr[ae]tig, crafty, sly, akin to
   pr[ae]t, pr[ae]tt, 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.
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            This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
            Ran on the greensward.                --Shak.
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   2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty
      fortune. "Wavering a pretty while." --Evelyn.
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   3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
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            The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the
            world.                                --Spectator.
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   4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a
      pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
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   5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [Scot.]
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            [He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not
            handsome.                             --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   Syn: Elegant; neat; fine. See {Handsome}.
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Pretty \Pret"ty\, adv.
   In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; --
   less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact;
   pretty cold weather.
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         Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian.
                                                  --Atterbury.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "pretty":
      a bit, a little, acceptably, adequately, adroit, aesthetic,
      aesthetically appealing, almighty, appealing, attractive, awfully,
      beauteous, beautiful, bonny, catchy, charming, clever, comely,
      cunning, cute, darling, decently, die, ducky, dulcet, elegant,
      endowed with beauty, euphonious, exceedingly, exquisite, extremely,
      eye-filling, fair, fairishly, fairly, fairly well, fetching, fine,
      flowerlike, good, good-looking, graceful, gracile, handsome,
      harmonious, heavy, in a measure, in a way, in some measure,
      incredibly, just, kind of, lovely, lyrical, mellifluous, melodic,
      melodious, mightily, mighty, moderately, more or less, musical,
      only too, passably, plaything, powerful, powerfully, presentably,
      pretty much, pretty well, pulchritudinous, quite, rather, real,
      really, reasonably, respectably, right, satisfactorily, scarcely,
      slightly, so, some, something, somewhat, sort of, terribly,
      terrifically, to a degree, to some extent, tolerably, toy, tuneful,
      unexceptionably, very, well enough, wicked, winsome, workmanlike