Pretty Much

Definition: Pretty Much

Pretty Much

Adverb

1. To some degree; "we were pretty much lost when we met the forest ranger".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Pretty Much

Beer, it's your best friend, you drink a lot. Women? You're a freshman, so it's pretty much out of the question (PCU; writing credit: Adam Leff; Zak Penn)

No, he pretty much thinks everybody's gay. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Yeah, pretty much, except we drove around in a van solving mysteries (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

We could have another funeral tomorrow. I mean, all the dishes are out and we pretty much know who to invite (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

I don't like you. At the end of the day, I pretty much think you're a vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The planet has - or rather had- a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "pretty much": pretty much the same. Additional references.

German

es ist so ziemlich das gleiche (it's pretty much the same). (various references)

Greek 

περίπου (about, approximate, approximately, circa, in the region of, opus so, or so, some). (various references)

Hungarian

meglehetősen (considerably, fairly, more or less, pretty, some), eléggé (enough, fairly, plenty, pretty, quite, rather, sufficiently, to underrate). (various references)

Manx

mooarane myr yn cheddin (pretty much the same). (various references)

Pig Latin

ettypray uchmay.(various references)

Russian 

слишком (far too, overly, too), очень (anxiously, awful, awfully, badly, damnably, dooms, enormously, ever so, exceedingly, extremely, greatly, highly, hugely, immensely, jolly, miserably, most, much, overwhelmingly, particularly, passing, quite, real, screamingly, so, thumping, to a degree, too, vastly, very, very much, very much indeed, well). (various references)

Spanish

más o menos lo mismo (much of a muchness, pretty much the same). (various references)

Turkish

neredeyse (all but, almost, ere long, in any moment, just about, little less than, nearly, next door to, next to, practically, soon, well nigh, within an ace of doing), hemen hemen (about, all but, almost, at close quarters, barely, much, near, nearly, next door to, next to, nigh, practically, proximate, scarcely, well nigh), büyük ölçüde (highly, in large, on a large scale), aşağı yukarı (about, approximately, approximative, around, circa, close on, in the neighborhood of, in the neighbourhood of, in the rough, just about, more or less, nigh, rough, roughly, roundly, some, something like, sub-, thereabout, to and fro, tolerably). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: chetrum, crumpet, thumper, trumpet, turpeth.

-4 letters: cherty, cutter, cypher, murphy, mutter, precut, pretty, putter, rectum, rheumy, tectum, tetchy.

-5 letters: chert, chump, chute, chyme, crept, crepy, cruet, crump, crypt, curet, cuter, cutey, cutty, empty, eruct, erupt, hempy, humpy, hyper, mercy, mutch, muter, perch, petty, putty, recut, retch, rheum, rhyme, ruche, rutty, techy, tempt, teuch.

+5 letters: chemoautotrophy.