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English to English adjective
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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. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing | | Example: pretty girl
pretty song
pretty room
source: wordnet30
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(used ironically) unexpectedly bad | | Example: a pretty mess
a pretty kettle of fish
source: wordnet30 adverb
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to a moderately sufficient extent or degree | | Example: pretty big
pretty bad
jolly decent of him
the shoes are priced reasonably
he is fairly clever with computers
source: wordnet30
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In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather. | | source: webster1913
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