pretty

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

bello

carino

grazioso

abbastanza

bellino

civettuolo

vano

vezzoso

buono

👍

piuttosto

attraente

leggiadro

carina

aggraziato

alquanto

gradevole

simpatico

squisito

sufficiente

bel

belloccio

delizioso

di bell’aspetto

incantatore

incantevole

invitante

passabilmente

prestante

raffinato

ragionevolmente

venusto

bellissimo

affascinante

allettante

amabile

amichevole

basta

bella

benevole

considerevole

cortese

discretamente

eccellente

elegante

gentile

prezioso

saporito

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

joli

beau

bonito

hübsch

schön

lindo

bonito

bastante

mooi

belle

ziemlich

bello

hermoso

aardig

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪti/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: prety

Ereditato da inglese antico: prættiġ

Affine olandese: prettig

Affine basso tedesco: prettig

Affine islandese: 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.