Use the word pretty to describe something with a delicate and pleasant appearance. Something that’s pretty is less powerful and intimidating than something that’s beautiful, the way a pretty floral raincoat is less intimidating than a beautiful film star.
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;
Adjective S.
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
Adjective S.
(used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"
Adverb
used as an intensifier (`jolly'' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"
superl.
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.
superl.
Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a
pretty fortune.
superl.
Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
superl.
Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically;
as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
superl.
Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.
adv.
In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost;
-- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty
cold weather.
Pretty
This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward.2.
The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world.4.
[He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome.
Pretty
Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian.
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;
In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very;
Usage Examples
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
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Other Usage ExamplesA lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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