pretty
31pretty — 1. adjective a pretty girl Syn: attractive, good looking, nice looking, personable, fetching, prepossessing, appealing, charming, delightful, cute; Scottish & N.English bonny Ant: plain, ugly 2. adverb; informal …
32pretty — mod. very. □ Bob’s a pretty nice guy. □ I’m pretty busy at the moment …
33pretty — see pretty is as pretty does …
34pretty — See: SITTING PRETTY …
35pretty — See: SITTING PRETTY …
36pretty up — verb to prettify, to make pretty or prettier …
37pretty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. attractive, comely, good looking; delicate, precise. See beauty. adv., informal, rather; moderately. See degree. Ant., ugly, unattractive. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Attractive] Syn. attractive,… …
38pretty — [OE] In Old English pretty (or prættig, as it was then) meant ‘clever’ in a bad sense – ‘crafty, cunning’. Not until the 15th century had it passed via ‘clever’, ‘skilfully made’, and ‘fine’ to ‘beautiful’. It was a derivative of prætt ‘trick,… …
39pretty — See: sitting pretty …
40pretty — 1. Attractive. Nani, maika i, u i, nohea, huapala. 2. Somewhat. Ano. ♦ Pretty good, ano maika i …