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.
Definitions
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
- superlative. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
- superlative. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
- superlative. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.
- adverb. In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.
- adjective. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
"pretty girl"
"pretty song"
- adjective. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad
"a pretty mess"
"a pretty kettle of fish"
- adverb. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
"pretty big"
"pretty bad"
Synonyms
fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, somewhat
Common word forms
prettied, prettier, pretties, prettily, prettiest, prettying
Words from these letters
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