prettiness

adjective prettier, prettiest

1. pleasing or attractive in a dainty, delicate, or graceful way rather than through striking beauty, elegance, grandeur, or stateliness
2. 1. fine; good; nice: often used ironically: a pretty fix
   2. adroit; skillful: a pretty move
3. Archaic elegant
4. Now Chiefly Scot. brave; bold; gallant
5. Informal considerable; quite large: a pretty price

Origin: ME prati < OE prættig, crafty < prætt, craft, trick

adverb

1. fairly; somewhat [pretty sure]: sometimes, by hyperbole, quite or very: pretty angry
2. prettier, prettiestInformal prettily: to talk pretty

noun pl. pretties

transitive verb prettied, prettying