pretty

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

joli

beau

belle

mignon

assez

bath

pas mal

passablement

plutôt

bon

👍

aimable

gentil

suffisamment

jolie

attrayant

raisonnablement

ravissant

relativement

spécialement

surtout

sympathique

tout à fait

très

très bien

jolis

modérément

beau ''m''

belle ''f''

alléchant

attirant

attractif

beaucoup

charmant

chou

complètement

convenir

entièrement

équitablement

gracieux

magnifique

particulièrement

propre

Synonymes

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

Traductions

bonito

hübsch

bello

carino

schön

lindo

bonito

bastante

bello

mooi

ziemlich

grazioso

hermoso

aardig

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪti/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: prety

Hérité de ancien anglais: prættiġ

Appartenant à néerlandais: prettig

Appartenant à bas-allemand: prettig

Appartenant à islandais: 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.