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Pretty   /prˈɪti/   Listen
Pretty

adverb
1.
To a moderately sufficient extent or degree.  Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, somewhat.  "Pretty bad" , "Jolly decent of him" , "The shoes are priced reasonably" , "He is fairly clever with computers"
adjective
(compar. prettier; superl. prettiest)
1.
Pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing.  "Pretty song" , "Pretty room"
2.
(used ironically) unexpectedly bad.  "A pretty kettle of fish"



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"Pretty" Quotes from Famous Books



... grammar, or even theology, he could make mistakes as other men do, because the Holy Ghost has not promised to guide him in such things. Nevertheless, whatever the Pope teaches on anything you may be pretty sure is right. The Pope is nearly always a very learned man of many years' experience. He has with him at Rome learned men from every part of the world, so that we may say he has the experience of the whole world. Other rulers cannot and need not know as much as the Holy Father, because ...
— Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) - An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine • Thomas L. Kinkead
... yes! Ain't it yer forting as y' wan's tole? Oh, my pretty one, you asks ole mother for a fair future! I ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... "Nothing at all to your pretty friend," he leered. "I have plans for her. But as for you—see these creatures ...
— Pirates of the Gorm • Nat Schachner
... She is outdone about it. "A pretty tale for a child to be hearing," she says. "It is but a fearbabe. I wonder at ...
— A Warwickshire Lad - The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare • George Madden Martin
... dark; and here My sunlit time is short, but dear; but dear. Thou hast fought hard enough. Thou drawest breath Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death, By murdering her ... and blamest my faint heart, Coward, who hast let a woman play thy part And die to save her pretty soldier! Aye, A good plan, surely! Thou needst never die; Thou canst find alway somewhere some fond wife To die for thee. But, prithee, make not strife With other friends, who will not save thee so. Be silent, loving ...
— Alcestis • Euripides


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