noun
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A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
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Something that is pretty.
example
We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.
verb
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To make pretty; to beautify
adjective
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Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children, but less strikingly than something beautiful.
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Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
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Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.
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Cunning; clever, skilful.
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Moderately large; considerable.
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Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).
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Awkward, unpleasant.
adverb
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Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
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Prettily, in a pretty manner.
Examples of pretty in a Sentence
Oh, what a pretty sound it made!
Your aunt and uncle seem pretty fond of you.
Truthfully, it is pretty awful.
We just turned off the highway, so we'll be there pretty soon.
It was a pretty place, with vines growing thickly over the broad front porch.
Should he buy a pretty toy?
You have a very pretty neck.
He compared it with the baby's pretty face.
Where's the pretty girl?
Believe me, I'm pretty secure here and I've been careful.
You're pretty well armed for a social visit.
From what I hear, he's pretty... frugal; I guess would be the best word.
How pretty the baby was!
I heard she was pretty humiliated when she found out.
Usually when he awoke with a hard-on and a woman in his bed, what happened next was pretty straightforward.
Well, he has a home office and he goes there pretty often, but I can't figure out what he's doing.
He used to be a pretty good mechanic.
She has on a pretty red dress.
We have a pretty close time frame of entrance and exit.
The princess' beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne's pretty face.
Sonya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at this moment of happy, rapturous excitement.
You seemed pretty sure of yourself a while ago.
It's pretty long already.
I guess the speech went pretty well.
The pretty young girl materialized, hair wet and smiling, dressed in a new bathrobe Betsy had purchased.
You, personally, are pretty happy with the generic knockoff, which saves you a dollar and tastes the same to you.
With scarcely any exceptions they all were, or seemed to be, pretty--so rapturous were their smiles and so sparkling their eyes.
Howie doesn't have to work but he still suffers from head trauma, is pretty depressed and frankly, doesn't know what to do with himself.
Julie was a pretty girl, in her mid-twenties, I guessed.
You finish your thoughts out loud pretty often.
Then he thought what a pretty picture might be made of his sister's sweet face and little hands.
That's a pretty interesting thought.
Third, pretty much everything we know is published on the Internet and can be found in moments, if not seconds.
There were many pretty girls and the Rostov girls were among the prettiest.
She was so pretty I'm saddened she's gone so soon.
When he saw pretty Jennie Lohr on the road, he couldn't resist.
Sorry. That was a pretty blatant case of prying, wasn't it?
I always thought they had a pretty solid marriage, especially with Claire, but she's acting as crazy as a teenager and just watching her marriage crumble.
The rainbow tints from the colored suns fell upon the glass city softly and gave to the buildings many delicate, shifting hues which were very pretty to see.
He had made his leap, he had seen the great world, and was content to stay in his pretty glass house under the big fuchsia tree until he attained the dignity of froghood.
Several pretty large logs may still be seen lying on the bottom, where, owing to the undulation of the surface, they look like huge water snakes in motion.
As a matter of fact, I'm beginning to feel pretty good.
We still have more tests we could run but up to twenty four to forty eight hours; I'm pretty close on both time and location.
Plants themselves are pretty inefficient machines, at least from the standpoint of being good food sources for us.
Last Monday Simpson shot a pretty crane.
A very pretty curly-headed boy with a look of the Christ in the Sistine Madonna was depicted playing at stick and ball.
I'm pretty much out of the picture, at least for the near future.
Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and carrying her burden so lightly.
It was like walking in water and I almost lost my balance but after a few steps, I could control my motion pretty well.
I think I'm doing pretty damn good, considering I would've been able to kill him if you hadn't shot and run me over, he replied in irritation.