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pretty

[prit-ee] / ˈprɪt i /
ADJECTIVE
attractive
Synonyms
STRONGEST
attractive beautiful charming cute elegant good-looking graceful handsome lovely neat pleasant
STRONG
fair
WEAK
appealing beauteous boss cheerful cher comely dainty darling delicate delightful dishy fine foxy pleasing pulchritudinous tasteful
Antonyms
STRONGEST
homely repulsive ugly unattractive
ADVERB
very; moderately
Synonyms
STRONGEST
a little considerably fairly kind of moderately quite rather reasonably somewhat very
WEAK
ample pretty much sort of tolerably

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. 

Example Sentences

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“The DEA doesn’t have a choice. They have to reschedule it in three months. So that’s already pretty fast.”

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

"It's pretty heartbreaking after seeing us doing so well - to dare to dream and do the impossible," Foxes Trust chair Lynn Wyeth told BBC Sport.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Melanoma doctors were “all pretty horrified with the rejection the first time around,” she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

I have a white father, so I’m pretty pale and everybody thinks that I am fully white.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Mien was a pretty young Dutch woman we had met in Vught.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom