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. - Shak.
	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. [He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome. - Sir W. Scott.
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. - Atterbury.

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

a bit, a little, acceptably, adequately, adroit, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, almighty, appealing, awfully, bonny, catchy, clever, cunning, cute, darling, decently, die, ducky, dulcet, elegant, endowed with beauty, euphonious, exceedingly, exquisite, extremely, eye-filling, fairishly, fairly, fairly well, fetching, fine, flowerlike, good, good-looking, graceful, gracile, harmonious, heavy, in a measure, in a way, in some measure, incredibly, just, kind of, lyrical, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, mightily, mighty, moderately, more or less, musical, only too, passably, plaything, powerful, powerfully, presentably, pretty much, pretty well, pulchritudinous, quite, rather, real, really, reasonably, respectably, right, satisfactorily, scarcely, slightly, so, some, something, somewhat, sort of, terribly, terrifically, to a degree, to some extent, tolerably, toy, tuneful, unexceptionably, very, well enough, wicked, winsome, workmanlike

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