pretty

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

bonito

lindo

bastante

bello

hermoso

bonita

hermosa

guapo

bueno

👍

precioso

bella

mono

buen

gracioso

😄

linda

bien

encantador

amable

atractivo

agradable

agraciado

fino

apuesto

bondadoso

brilloso

gustoso

majo

menudo

primoroso

esquisito

-a

atractiva

afable

atrayente

cautivador

considerable

delicioso

😋

elegante

excelente

exquisito

gentil

guapa

ingenioso

listo

maravilloso

más bien

mucho

placentero

preciosa

rico

🤑

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

joli

beau

hübsch

bello

carino

schön

bonito

belle

mooi

ziemlich

grazioso

aardig

lindo

nett

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪti/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: prety

Heredado de inglés antiguo: prættiġ

Cognado con neerlandés: prettig

Cognado con bajo alemán: prettig

Cognado con islandés: 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.