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pretty

[prit-ee] / ˈprɪt i /




Usage

What are other ways to say pretty? Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. 

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Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields comes to Irvine a month before the former Disney Channel star kicks off her massive Unraveled tour, promoting her latest release “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026

While she’s often mentioned bands from the ’90s as inspiration, on “You Seem Pretty Sad” she looks back a decade earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

Pretty to look at, garbage if you’re trying to win a fight.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2026

"We're living in the darkest moment that I've experienced on this planet," the 76-year-old "Pretty Woman" star told an awards ceremony in Oslo for the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

My new clothes felt stiff and strange after a summer spent in overalls, but they looked fine, thanks to Aunt Pretty.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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