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[ UK /pɹˈɪti/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɪti/ ]
ADVERB
-
to certain extent or degree
pretty big
the shoes are priced reasonably
jolly decent of him
he is fairly clever with computers
pretty bad
ADJECTIVE
-
(used ironically) unexpectedly bad
a pretty mess
a pretty kettle of fish -
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
pretty song
pretty girl
pretty room
How To Use pretty In A Sentence
- I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool. Times, Sunday Times
- The first part of the book is pretty boring, but it gets a lot better as the story goes on.
- And those involved are pretty small: a few degrees between cooler land and warmer ocean at night, a few tens of degrees between tropics and poles. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
- We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
- The DOJ thing is pretty strange, and will probably get modified, but all I can say is how nice it is that Dems aren't all on the same page, parroting the same opinions, baaing like conservatives. Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
- While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
- Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
- That's pretty reasonable for being a motoring eco warrior. The Sun
- (I think the Dalek is pretty cute though, I have to say.) 10: 37 AM While it's still Valentine's Day ...
- If you defocus from the embedded Zoho Writer you pretty much kill it. The problem with mash-ups « Squash