Dictionary Entry
pretty
pretty is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adverb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
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.
- 2superlative
Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
- 3superlative
Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
- 4superlative
Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
- 5superlative
Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.
- 6adverb
In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.
- 7adjective
pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
"pretty girl"
"pretty song"
- 8adjective
(used ironically) unexpectedly bad
"a pretty mess"
"a pretty kettle of fish"
- 9adverb
to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
"pretty big"
"pretty bad"
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