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pretty    音標拼音: [pr'ɪti]
a. 漂亮的,可愛的,優美的,機靈的,狡猾的,恰當的
ad. 相當,頗

漂亮的,可愛的,優美的,機靈的,狡猾的,恰當的相當,頗

pretty
adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
[synonym: {reasonably}, {moderately}, {pretty}, {jolly},
{somewhat}, {fairly}, {middling}, {passably}] [ant:
{immoderately}, {unreasonably}]
adj 1: pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty
girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
2: (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a
pretty kettle of fish"

Pretty \Pret"ty\, adv.
In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; --
less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact;
pretty cold weather.
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Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian.
--Atterbury.
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Pretty \Pret"ty\, a. [Compar. {Prettier}; superl. {Prettiest}.]
[OE. prati, AS. pr[ae]ttig, pr[ae]tig, crafty, sly, akin to
pr[ae]t, pr[ae]tt, deceit, trickery, Icel. prettugr tricky,
prettr a trick; probably fr. Latin, perhaps through Celtic;
cf. W. praith act, deed, practice, LL. practica execution,
practice, plot. See {Practice}.]
1. 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.
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This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
Ran on the greensward. --Shak.
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2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty
fortune. "Wavering a pretty while." --Evelyn.
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3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
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The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the
world. --Spectator.
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4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a
pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
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5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [Scot.]
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[He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not
handsome. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Syn: Elegant; neat; fine. See {Handsome}.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "pretty":
a bit, a little, acceptably, adequately, adroit, aesthetic,
aesthetically appealing, almighty, appealing, attractive, awfully,
beauteous, beautiful, bonny, catchy, charming, clever, comely,
cunning, cute, darling, decently, die, ducky, dulcet, elegant,
endowed with beauty, euphonious, exceedingly, exquisite, extremely,
eye-filling, fair, fairishly, fairly, fairly well, fetching, fine,
flowerlike, good, good-looking, graceful, gracile, handsome,
harmonious, heavy, in a measure, in a way, in some measure,
incredibly, just, kind of, lovely, lyrical, mellifluous, melodic,
melodious, mightily, mighty, moderately, more or less, musical,
only too, passably, plaything, powerful, powerfully, presentably,
pretty much, pretty well, pulchritudinous, quite, rather, real,
really, reasonably, respectably, right, satisfactorily, scarcely,
slightly, so, some, something, somewhat, sort of, terribly,
terrifically, to a degree, to some extent, tolerably, toy, tuneful,
unexceptionably, very, well enough, wicked, winsome, workmanlike

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