Pretty

Definition of Pretty

Pret´ty

a.	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. This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward. - Shak.
	2.	Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
	3.	Affectedly nice; foppish; - used in an ill sense. The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world. - Spectator.
	4.	Mean; despicable; contemptible; - used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
	5.	Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome. - Sir W. Scott.
adv.	1.	In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; - less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather. Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian. - Atterbury.

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