[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pretty \pret"ty\, a. compar. prettier; superl. prettiest.
   oe. prati, as. praettig, praetig, crafty, sly, akin to
   praet, praett, 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.
      1913 webster

            this is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
            ran on the greensward.                --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty
      fortune. "wavering a pretty while." --evelyn.
      1913 webster

   3. affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
      1913 webster

            the pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the
            world.                                --spectator.
      1913 webster

   4. mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a
      pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
      1913 webster

   5. stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. scot.
      1913 webster

            he observed they were pretty men, meaning not
            handsome.                             --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   syn: elegant; neat; fine. see handsome.
        1913 webster
see also:
prettier prettiest practice handsome 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster

         pretty plainly professes himself a sincere christian.
                                                  --atterbury.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pretty
     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"
     adv : used as an intensifier `jolly' is used informally in
           britain; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of
           him" syn: jolly
     also: prettied, prettiest, prettier
see also:
jolly prettied prettiest prettier 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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