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   pretty

   /ˈprɪti/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person, especially a woman or child) attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful: "a pretty little girl with an engaging grin"
   • ▪ (of a thing) pleasing to the eye or the ear: "a pretty summer dress"
   • 2. used ironically to express annoyance or displeasure: informal "he led me a pretty dance"

   adverb

   • 1. to a moderately high degree; fairly: informal "he looked pretty fit for his age"

   noun

   • 1. an attractive thing, especially a trinket: informal "he buys her lots of pretties—bangles and rings"
   • ▪ used to refer in a condescending way to an attractive person: informal "six pretties in sequined leotards"

   verb

   • 1. make pretty or attractive: "she'll be all prettied up and ready to go in an hour"

   Word Origin Old Englishprættig; related to Middle Dutch pertich ‘brisk, clever’, obsolete Dutch prettig ‘humorous, sporty’, from a West Germanic base meaning ‘trick’. The sense development ‘deceitful, cunning, clever, skilful, admirable, pleasing, nice’ has parallels in adjectives such as canny, fine, nice, etc.

   Derivatives

   • 1. prettily adverb
   • 2. prettiness noun
   • 3. prettyish adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman.

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   • Some common synonyms of pretty are beautiful, comely, fair, handsome, and lovely. While all these words mean "exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasu...
   • The words beautiful and pretty can be used in similar contexts, but beautiful applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and...
   • Comely is like handsome in suggesting what is coolly approved rather than emotionally responded to. // the comely grace of a dancer
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   • While in some cases nearly identical to pretty, handsome suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance. // a handsome Georgi...
   • Lovely is close to beautiful but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite. // a lovel...

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