prettyish

Variant of pretty

adjective prettier, prettiest

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

a pretty person or thing

transitive verb prettied, prettying

to make pretty: usually with up

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