Pretty /(?)/

Pret·ty

Pretty

a.
  1. Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.
    This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward.
  2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
  3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
    The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world.
    — Spectator.
  4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
  5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [Scot.]
    [He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome.

Pretty

adv.
  1. In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.
    Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian.