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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. 

Example Sentences

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Louella turned the stroller over and looked underneath it as if she thought Howard might have fallen through, which was pretty dumb.

From Literature

But Khosrowshahi drew a line between companies doing “pretty easy” tasks like providing AI summaries of client pitches in a slight boost to productivity, and those developing company-specific software from the ground up.

From MarketWatch

“Which makes me feel less insane when I’m having a tough day on set. I’m like, ‘OK, pretty sure Paul McCartney had some tough days in the studio and look what he made.’

From The Wall Street Journal

“And now we’re at three and I think I’m feeling pretty good about this and sometimes he thinks he might like to have a fourth, but we’ll see where that leads,” she said in June.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Minneapolis used to have pretty dull food,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal