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; |
2. | Moderately large; considerable; | |
3. | Affectedly nice; foppish; - used in an ill sense. | |
4. | Mean; despicable; contemptible; - used ironically; | |
5. | Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. | |
adv. | 1. | In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; - less emphatic than very; |
Adj. | 1. | pretty - pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room" |
2. | pretty - (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish" | |
Adv. | 1. | pretty - used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him" Synonyms: jolly |