pretty

Significat (English)

Adj

1. Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
2. Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
3. Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.
4. Effeminate.
5. Cunning; clever, skilful.
6. Moderately large; considerable.
7. Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).
8. Awkward, unpleasant, bad.

Adv

1. Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
2. Prettily, in a pretty manner.

Noun

1. A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
2. Something that is pretty.

Verb

To make pretty; to beautify

Synonyms

beautiful

lovely

handsome

nice

cute

attractive

good-looking

charming

rather

fairly

graceful

quite

fair

good

👍

fine

comely

considerably

precious

elegant

adorable

neat

darling

enough

dainty

pleasing

sufficiently

good looking

kind

sweet

smart

very

magnificent

dinky

nice-looking

pleasant

jolly

be good-looking

somewhat

beauteous

be beautiful

quaint

splendid

pulchritudinous

well

become pretty

bright-looking

shapely

sightly

chic

cunning

trim

make pretty

bonny

passably

net

middling

goodly

moderately

become beautiful

exquisite

reasonably

gorgeous

nicely

nifty

notably

notedly

palatable

particularly

personable

pin-up

pleasingly

posh

precisely

preferably

prim

proper

quite a bit

racy

rakish

really

relishable

rich

🤑

savory

savoury

significant

sizable

sizeable

so

soma

some

sort of

spark plug

specially

specifically

spiffy

splendiferous

spruce

stunning

stylish

sublime

substantial

sufficient

superb

swell

sympathetic

taking

tasty

tempting

tidy

tolerably

toothsome

trig

wanted

well-proportioned

winsome

zest

well favored

well groomed

be good

knock-out

look good

nobby

seperately

well-dressed

sparkish

love

❤️

gey

black wedge tetra

garnet tetra

pretty and charming

sweet looking

tender and beautiful

savorous

a fair amount

right smart

gey and

hankydory

easy on the eyes

be good looking

fayre

prettiful

bootiful

pulchrous

bonny

Soma

acceptable

adequate

small little

affable

agreeable

alluring

a lot

appealing

appearance

artistic

awe-inspiring

beauty

beloved

bighearted

bijou

bonnie

clever

comfortable

completely

considerable

crummy

dapper

dear

debonair

delicious

😋

dignified

disarming

dressy

eminently

endearing

engaging

entirely

especially

exceedingly

exceptionally

fancy

fascinating

feat

friendly

genial

goodish

good to look at

gracious

grand

great

greatly

hard to understand

highly

ideally

ingenious

insult

jaunty

keenly

lightsome

look

lots

lovable

much

natty

nice looking

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪti/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: prety

Inherited from anglès antic: prættiġ

Cognate with neerlandès: prettig

Cognate with baix alemany: prettig

Cognate with islandès: prettugur

In summary

From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.