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US
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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
- The first part of the book is pretty boring, but it gets a lot better as the story goes on.
- I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- (I think the Dalek is pretty cute though, I have to say.) 10: 37 AM While it's still Valentine's Day ...
- 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)
- With the exception of one guy, whose name escapes me right now, the DJs are a pretty poor bunch too.
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- Data costs about $0.05 per MB and it is pretty reliable and fastish I got about 380kbit/s connection speed. 2008 January « My Life in Kharkov
- 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.