pretty

[prit-ee] / ˈprɪt i /

ADJECTIVE

attractive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

attractive beautiful charming cute elegant good-looking graceful handsome lovely neat pleasant

STRONG

fair

WEAK

appealing beauteous boss cheerful cher comely dainty darling delicate delightful dishy fine foxy pleasing pulchritudinous tasteful

Antonyms

STRONGEST

homely repulsive ugly unattractive

ADVERB

very; moderately

Synonyms

STRONGEST

a little considerably fairly kind of moderately quite rather reasonably somewhat very

WEAK

ample pretty much sort of tolerably

Usage

What are other ways to say pretty? Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile.

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Trefor is a sprawling village with pretty stone cottages and narrow streets offering a picturesque scene.

From BBC

Pitt previously described Donnelly as "pretty special" saying "we wouldn't have the movie without him".

From BBC

Physically, he is not able to live independently, but was or is pretty sharp mentally.

From MarketWatch

"That's a pretty risky strategy it seems to me, with a lot of potential for unintended consequences," he adds.

From BBC

He added that “pretty much across the company we performed well.”

From Barron's

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