Pretty

English Meaning

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.

1. Pleasing or attractive in a graceful or delicate way. See Synonyms at beautiful.
2. Clever; adroit: a pretty maneuver.
3. Very bad; terrible: in a pretty predicament; a situation that has reached a pretty pass.
4. Ostensibly or superficially attractive but lacking substance or conviction: full of pretty phrases.
5. Informal Considerable in size or extent: a pretty fortune.
6. To a fair degree; moderately: a pretty good student.
7. In a pretty manner; prettily or pleasingly.
8. One that is pretty.
9. Delicate clothing, especially lingerie.
10. To make pretty: pretty up the house.
11. pretty much For the most part; mostly: "The . . . matter was pretty much dying down” ( John Strahinich).