pretty
♦♦ pret|ty /pr'ɪti/ (prettier prettiest)
1 [ADJ]
If you describe someone, especially a girl, as pretty, you mean that they look nice and are attractive in a delicate way.
She's a very charming and very pretty girl.
● prettily [ADV]
She smiled again, prettily.
● prettiness [N-UNCOUNT]
Her prettiness had been much admired.
2 [ADJ]
A place or a thing that is pretty is attractive and pleasant, in a charming but not particularly unusual way.
Whitstable is still a very pretty little town.
● prettily [ADV]
The living-room was prettily decorated.
● prettiness [N-UNCOUNT]
...shells of quite unbelievable prettiness.
3 [ADV] ADV adj/adv
You can use pretty before an adjective or adverb to mean `quite' or `rather'. (INFORMAL)
I had a pretty good idea what she was going to do...
Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.
4 [PHRASE]
Pretty much or pretty well means `almost'. (INFORMAL)
His new government looks pretty much like the old one...
1 [ADJ]
If you describe someone, especially a girl, as pretty, you mean that they look nice and are attractive in a delicate way.
She's a very charming and very pretty girl.
● prettily [ADV]
She smiled again, prettily.
● prettiness [N-UNCOUNT]
Her prettiness had been much admired.
2 [ADJ]
A place or a thing that is pretty is attractive and pleasant, in a charming but not particularly unusual way.
Whitstable is still a very pretty little town.
● prettily [ADV]
The living-room was prettily decorated.
● prettiness [N-UNCOUNT]
...shells of quite unbelievable prettiness.
3 [ADV] ADV adj/adv
You can use pretty before an adjective or adverb to mean `quite' or `rather'. (INFORMAL)
I had a pretty good idea what she was going to do...
Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.
4 [PHRASE]
Pretty much or pretty well means `almost'. (INFORMAL)
His new government looks pretty much like the old one...