pretty

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Adj

1. Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
2. Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
3. (derogatory, often) Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.
4. (UK, derogatory, sometimes) Effeminate.
5. Cunning; clever, skilful.
6. (dated) Moderately large; considerable.
7. (dated) Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).
8. (ironic) Awkward, unpleasant, bad.
9. Matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.

Adv

1. (not-comparable) Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
2. (dialectal, not-comparable) 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

Konzepte

hübsch

schön

ziemlich

nett

gut

👍

genug

hinlänglich

niedlich

genügend

angenehm

anmutig

schmuck

süß

fein

attraktiv

lieblich

herrlich

beträchtlich

reizend

relativ

sympatisch

umgänglich

zierlich

lieber

richtige Menge

ungefährer Zustand

schön ''Adj''

ganz

allerliebst

am liebsten

anders

anziehend

bezauberend

charmant

einigermaßen

entgegenkommend

entzückend

freundlich

ganz schön

graziös

hold

lecker

leutselig

liebenswürtig

Synonyme

beautiful

lovely

handsome

nice

cute

good-looking

attractive

charming

rather

fairly

graceful

quite

fair

good

👍

fine

considerably

comely

precious

elegant

adorable

neat

darling

enough

pleasing

dainty

kind

good looking

sufficiently

sweet

very

smart

pleasant

be good-looking

magnificent

jolly

dinky

beauteous

nice-looking

somewhat

reasonably

shapely

sightly

pulchritudinous

chic

passably

quaint

moderately

bonny

middling

net

Übersetzungen

joli

bonito

beau

bello

carino

lindo

bonito

bastante

bello

belle

mooi

grazioso

hermoso

aardig

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪti/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: prety

Geerbt von Altenglisch: prættiġ

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: prettig

Verwandt mit Niederdeutsch: prettig

Verwandt mit Isländisch: 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.