pretty
Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
Adjective 4 meanings
Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
Cunning; clever, skilful.
Moderately large; considerable.
Adverb 1 meaning
Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
Noun 2 meanings
A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
Something that is pretty.
“We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.”
Verb 1 meaning
To make pretty; to beautify
Etymology
From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
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PRETTY at a glance
PRETTY has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (P 3 + R 1 + E 1 + T 1 + T 1 + Y 4) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #392 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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