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Definition of Pretty
Pretty

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.

Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.

Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.

Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.

Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.

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 Quotations

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.
Robert Downey, Jr.

I'm a pretty emotional person.
Katey Sagal

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
Yogi Berra

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

Pretty Translations

pretty in Dutch is vriendelijk, beminnelijk, aardig
pretty in French is joli
pretty in Italian is vano, carino, civettuolo
pretty in Latin is bellus, pulchellus
pretty in Portuguese is consideravelmente, lindo
pretty in Spanish is majo, coqueta, guapo, vano, bello, lindo

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