Pretty

Definition: Pretty

Pretty

Adjective

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".

Adverb

1. Intensifier, as in "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; (`jolly' is used informally in Britain as in "jolly decent of him").

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

Date "pretty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Pretty \Pret"ty\, adjective. [Comparative Prettier; superlative Prettiest.]. (references)

Tips from 1870

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

Synonym: Pretty

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Greatness

Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely.

Imperfection

Adverb: almost; to a limited extent, rather; pretty, moderately, passing; only, considering, all things considered, enough.

Crosswords: Pretty

Janie's a pretty typical teenager (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Oh. Because you know, it seems to me that, aside from being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal (Benny & Joon; writing credit: Barry Berman)

Yeah, Lina, you looked pretty good for a girl (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

You were pretty good with that hook (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Hey pretty mama (Pretty Girl; performing artist: Jon B.)

Some sweet day I'll make her mine pretty flamingo (Pretty Flamingo; performing artist: Manfred Mann)

Oh, oh, pretty woman ("Oh Pretty Woman"; performing artist: Roy Orbison)

And the girls say I'm pretty fly for a white guy (Pretty Fly; performing artist: The Offspring)

At how pretty and high and shy she was (Pretty and High; performing artist: The Roches)

Pretty ugly (references; author: unknown)

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. (references; author: unknown)

Pretty Wet Lips (1974)

Poor Pretty Eddy (1973)

Pretty Peggy Scream (1973)

The Pretty Things (1969)

Pretty Poison (1968)

Pretty Girl (performing artist: Jon B.)

Pretty Flamingo (performing artist: Manfred Mann)

Pretty And High (performing artist: The Roches)

Pretty Woman (performing artist: Roy Orbison)

OH, PRETTY WOMAN  (performing artist: Roy Orbison )

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

Books

• Disney Princess: Royal Rooms and Pretty Places: Book and Stickers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tenchi Muyo - Mihoshi Special and Pretty Sammy (reference)

• Pretty Baby (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pretty Sound: Jazz From Peter Gunn (reference)

• So Pretty (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Pretty as a Picture Gift Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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"Pretty Waves" (hi-res movie) by Tom Tredon. This is just one small clip from the movie. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (the speed) and B (the whole graph's amplitude).

A pretty view of the Agua Fria River with a Tree to the left of the shot. Credit: Beth Perault.

A pretty landscape shot in the Agua Fria National Monument with some yellow wildflowers in the foreground. Credit: Chris Tincher.

Time (the warder) to the visiting centuries: I've seen some pretty bad cases in my time, but this one beats them all. Credit: Library of Congress.

As a man he was a complete failure, but as a gull -- well he believed he might have been a pretty decent -- gull. Credit: Library of Congress.

Not a pretty picture for the other states. Credit: Library of Congress.

And when the pie is opened and the birds begin to sign [sic] isn't that a pretty dish to set before the king / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress.

A pretty little water carrier of upper Egypt. Credit: Library of Congress.

"However, we've been pretty successful in keeping American newspapermen out of China" / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Pretty spot on Belle Isle. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Nevertheless in the most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Her observation had been pretty correct

In Magdalen Park the deer are wild With joy, that Maggie brings Some bread a friend had given the child, To feed the pretty things

We knew pretty well that we were helping ourselves, before we met here, I believe

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

She put on a little round cap which concealed her shorn head, and with that she was still pretty.

The first arts men are pretty sure

I prithee, pretty York, who told thee this

Pretty girl on tire cover, painted in color and named Cora

I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strowing some heath under me, and slept pretty well

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things

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Business

They are therefore pretty hard to impress with the latest international trends -- they expect them. They are also discerning customers, looking for value for money. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

Usually traffickers choose pretty girls that belong to poor families. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pretty": a pretty kettle of fish ♦ a pretty kettle of fish! ♦ a pretty pass ♦ a pretty penny ♦ be at pretty pass ♦ be in a pretty mess ♦ be sitting pretty ♦ feel pretty sure of ♦ here is a pretty mess ♦ here's a pretty business! ♦ here's a pretty mess! ♦ lead a pretty dance ♦ my pretty ♦ pretty Amazing New Stuff ♦ pretty as a picture ♦ Pretty Bayou ♦ pretty big ♦ pretty bobbish ♦ pretty boy ♦ pretty cold ♦ pretty face ♦ pretty girl ♦ pretty Good Privacy ♦ pretty kettle of fish ♦ pretty maid ♦ pretty much ♦ pretty much the same ♦ pretty pictures ♦ pretty piece of business ♦ pretty piece of work ♦ Pretty Prairie ♦ pretty scenery ♦ pretty story ♦ pretty up ♦ pretty well ♦ pretty woman ♦ she is doing pretty good ♦ she is pretty ♦ sitting pretty ♦ that is a pretty business! ♦ this a pretty kettle of fish!. Additional references.

Beginning with "pretty": pretty-baby, pretty-behaved, pretty-boy, pretty-face-and-big-tits-to-sell-the-record, pretty-little-feather-brained-only-good-for-one-thing-bimbo-know-nothing-woman's-head, pretty-pretties, pretty-pretty, Pretty-spoken.

Ending with "pretty": be pretty-pretty, least-pretty, None-so-pretty, postcard-pretty, pretty-pretty.

Afrikaans

aardig. (various references)

Albanian

pothuaj (all but, almost, but, half and half, most, much, near, nearly, practically, quasi, scarcely, virtually, well nigh), tepër delikat, tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, showy, sightly, winsome), mjaft (come on, enough, fairly, noticeably, quite, quite a few, rather, reasonably, richly, Satis, sufficiently, that's enough, well), i mjaftë (due, enough, sufficient), i lezetshëm (agreeable, comely, cool, delicious, delightful, handsome, ingratiatingly, jolly, nice), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), i bukur (airy fairy, beauteous, beautified, beautiful, bonny, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, pinup, pleasant), goxha (good, lovely, nice, quite a lot, rather, well), gati (about, all but, almost, at hand, but, in line, in store, much, nearly, picked, practically, prepared, ready, scarcely, virtual, well nigh), e pashme. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاتن (alluring, attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), ‏مليح (beautiful, handsome, nice, pleasant), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin, urbane), ‏وسيم (bonny, comeliness, comely, cunning, dainty, dapper, encore, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome), ‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏جيد (fully, good, kindly, neck, perfect, prime, well), ‏جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, courtesy, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, shapely, sightly, sweet), ‏جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, improve, ornament, outline, precis, prettify, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish), ‏جسيم (gross, particle), ‏جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty), ‏ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, companionable, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, obliging, pet, pleasing, prepossessing, quaint, stylish, witty, wry), ‏بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), доста (considerably, distinctly, great deal, half, nice and, quite, rather, reasonably, some, somewhat, tolerably, well), доста много (quite a few), доста голям (considerable, goodly, marked, respectable, sizable, smart), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome), добър (benign, fair, good, good natured, kind, kindly, lucky, nice, plummy, round, savoury, sound, tenderhearted, useful, warmhearted, well), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), сръчен (able, adroit, agile, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, handy, ingenious, knacky, knowing, light-handed, neat-handed, practised, skilful, skillful, smart, two-handed), галантен (gallant, sparkish), горе-долу (approximately, fairly, good enough, in the rough, indifferently, much, roughly, so so, sort of), горен украсен ръб на чаша, твърде (overly, rather, too), хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), разкрасявам (beautify, dress up, embellish, embroider, furbish, gild, ornament, prettify), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy). (various references)

Chinese 

相当 (Fairly, Quite), 漂亮 (beautiful), 嬛 (clever, place where supreme bestows books), 姣 (cunning), 姱 (fascinating). (various references)

Czech

pìkný (fine, good looking, handsome, nice, nice-looking, specious), roztomilý (amiable, appealing, charming, cute, darling, lovable, lovely, pleasing, refreshing, sweet), hezký (attractive, considerable, fair, fine, good, good looking, gorgeous, handsome, nice, nice-looking, personable), hezká, dosti (enough, rather), do jisté míry. (various references)

Danish

køn (sex). (various references)

Dutch

aardig (affable, amusing, dainty, entertaining, fair, fairly, friendly, funny, good-natured, kind, nice, rather, relatively, tidy). (various references)

Esperanto

beleta, amabla (dainty, kind, nice). (various references)

Faeroese

fittur. (various references)

Farsi 

قشنگ کردن (Adorn), قشنگ (Beauteous, Beautiful, Cheesy, Pert, Spruce, Sprucy), تاحدی (Cretain, Kindof, Partly, Somewhat), خوش نما (Glossy, Showy), خوب (Fine, Good, Nice, Okay, Super, Well), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim), شکیل (Shapely), بطوردلپذیر (Seemly). (various references)

Finnish

sorea (graceful, handsome), soma (cute, dainty, neat, nice, sweet), sievä (attractive, cute, handsome). (various references)

French

joli (precious), mignon. (various references)

French Canadian

jolie. (various references)

Frisian

skoan. (various references)

German

ziemlich (a little, almost, comparatively, considerable, enough, fair, fairly, fitting, most, nearly, proper, quite, rather, reasonable, reasonably, relatively, sizable, sizeable, some, somewhat, sufficient, sufficiently, to some extent, tolerably), hübsch (beautiful, bonnie, bonny, comely, delightful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, neat, neatly, nice, nice-looking, nifty, tidy, trim), nett (cute, cutely, fair, kind, kindly, lovely, natty, neat, neatly, nice, nice-looking, nicely, pleasant, prettily, tidy). (various references)

Greek 

αρκετά (considerableably, considerably, enough, fairly, quite, rather, reasonably, sufficiently). (various references)

Hebrew 

יפהפה (beauteous, lovely), יפה (appropriately, beautiful, beautifully, comely, fair, finely, good looking, handsome, lovely, nice, picturesque, right, well), למדי (enough, fairly, quite, somewhat, sufficiently), חמוד (cute, dainty, delightful, lovable, lovely, sweet), במדת מה (in a way, partly, rather, sort of), נחמד (adorable, charming, cute, dainty, delightful, desirable, lovely, mellow, nice, pleasant), נאה (comely, dwelling, fine, habitation, handsome, meadow, natty, nice, pasture, personable, pleasant, presentable, seemly, sightly). (various references)

Hungarian

csinos (bonnie, bonny, compt, crackajack, crackerjack, crummy, cunning, cute, dolly, easy on the eye, easy to look at, foxy, good looking, handsome, have good looks, natty, neat, nice-looking, nifty, personable, proper, seemly, she's got it, sightly, Spruce, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig), szép (beautiful, fair, fine, good, handsome, lovely, nice, nice-looking), eléggé (enough, fairly, plenty, pretty much, quite, rather, sufficiently, to underrate). (various references)

Indonesian

permai (beautiful, ornate, scenic), gelis (lovely), cantik (beautiful, comely, dainty, lief, lovely), ayu (beautiful). (various references)

Irish

deas (nice). (various references)

Italian

grazioso (affable, bonny, charming, dinky, friendly, good-natured, graceful, gracious, kind, lovable, lovely, neat, nice, pleasant, sweet), bellino (dinky), carino (affable, beautiful, cute, decent, dinky, fair, fine, friendly, good-natured, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, poppet, sweet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

眩い (cute), 綺麗 (beautiful, clean, fair, nice, tidy), プラント輸出 (angrily, export of manufacturing plant, in a huff, in anger, plait, planner, planning, pleat, pleated skirt, pre-, pre-amplifier, preference, prefix, preprocessor, prerecording, preset, pretty-print, priest, prima ballerina, prima donna, primitive, primitive art, prince, Prince Edward Island, prince melon, princess, princess coat, principle, printer, prism, pudding), 愛らしい (charming, lovely), 奇麗 (beautiful, clean, fair, nice, tidy), 可愛い (charming, cute, darling, dear, lovely, pet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

プリティ , きれい (beautiful, clean, fair, nice, tidy), まぶい (cute), かわいい (charming, cute, darling, dear, lovely, pet), かわゆい (charming, cute, darling, dear, lovely, pet), あいらしい (charming, lovely). (various references)

Korean 

매우 (Precious, ultra, Ultra-). (various references)

Malay

baik (affable, friendly, good-natured, kind), bagus. (various references)

Manx

bwoyagh (attractive, beauteous, beautiful, comely, handsome, lovely), bwaagh (beauteous, beautiful, comely, handsome, lovely), breagh (handsome). (various references)

Papiamen

nèchi, bunita (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely), amabel (dainty, kind, nice). (various references)

Pig Latin

ettypray.(various references)

Polish

ładny (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, pleasing). (various references)

Portuguese

lindo (beautiful, lovely), bonito (beautiful, dinky, fetching, fine, good, good-looking, handsome, lovely, nice, nice-looking). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

linda, bonita (beautiful). (various references)

Romanian

simpatic (attractive, attractively, congenial, inclination, ingratiating, kindly, likable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, shine, sympathetic), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), lucruri frumoase, frumuşel (comely, dinky, gently, good looking, simply, slowly, tidy), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), dråguţ, drãguţ (attractive, beloved, charming, comely, cute, dainty, darling, dinky, good looking, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, nice-looking, sweet, sweetheart), destul de (fairly, middling, moderately, nice and, passably), cam (a little, about, approximately, around, circa, rather, roundabout, some, somewhat, somewhere, thereabouts, to some extent), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian 

хорошенький (comely, nice-looking, pinup), вполне (altogether, completely, fully, hollow, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, quite, richly, thoroughly, throughly, to a nicety), миленький (darling, dear), значительный (big, considerable, distinguish, epoch making, groundbreaking, handsome, humungous, important, of great importance, sizable, sizeable, tidy), прелестный (delectable, delicious, delightful, duck of, exquisite, jolly, lovely), приятный (agreeable, cuddly, cushy, dulcet, enjoyable, graceful, grateful, jolly, likable, nice, palatable, peachy, pleasant, pleasurable, prepossessing, satisfactory, simpatico, soft, sweet-tempered), привлекательный (alluring, appealing, attractive, beguiling, catching, cuddly, cunning, dinky, engaging, enticing, fetching, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice-looking, quaint, snazzy, well-favoured, well-looking, winsome), изрядно красивый, довольно (fairly). (various references)

Scottish

bòidheach (beautiful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prilično (plenty, quite, sufficiently), lepuškast (comely, good looking), lep (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dreamy, fair, fine, goodly, handsome, nice, scenic, scenical). (various references)

Spanish

majo (bonny, good looking, natty, nice, nob, smart, toff), lindo (beautiful, bonny, charming, comely, cute, delightful, hairdo, lovely, nice, nice-looking, what, whatever), bonito (affable, beauteous, beautiful, charming, delightful, fair, fine, friendly, good-natured, handsome, kind, lovely, lustrous, nice), guapo (beautiful, comely, dandified, good looking, handsome, lazy, nice, nice-looking), amable (affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, charming, comradely, dainty, darling, decent, friendly, gentile, gentle, good, good-natured, helpful, kind, levely, likeable, lovable, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, pleasant, sympathetic, thankful). (various references)

Swedish

vacker (beautiful, comely, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, sightly, sweet, tidy, winsome), täck, söt (beloved, bonny, cute, darling, dear, expensive, gentle, lovely, soft, sweet, tender, valuable), någorlunda (a little, fairly, fairly good, in a fashion, moderately, passably, rather, some, somewhat, to some extent, tolerably), nätt (dainty, dapper, natty, neat, prettily, scantily, scanty, trim), näpen (engaging), ganska (enough, fairly, kind of, middling, plenty, quite, rather, reasonably, some, to a degree, tolerably, very). (various references)

Turkish

zarif (canny, classy, clever, courtly, dainty, Dandy, dandyish, dinky, dressy, elegant, go-go, graceful, gracious, natty, neat, pulchritudinous, recherche, sharp, stylish, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy), sevimli (amiable, appealing, bonny, charming, cuddlesome, cuddly, cunning, cute, delectable, fair, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, prettily, sapid, sympathetic, winning, winsome), oldukça (a bit of a, a good many, a whale of, fairly, good, quite, rather, reasonably, somewhat, spanking, substantially, well, well enough, whopping), nefís, hox (agreeable, enjoyable, gentle, lovely, nice, pleasant, soft, sweet, tender), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome), hayli (a good many, a great many, considerable, much, plenty of), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), epeyce (fairly, goodly, just about, quite a few), cici (cute, dinky, popsy, popsy-wopsy), bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, goodish, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, ordinary, plebeian, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, shoddy, tawdry, tolerably, vulgar), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Turkmen 

telper (fine), gцzel (nice), gцrkana (nice, picturesque), eяjelik. (various references)

Ukrainian

чарівний (admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, charming, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fairy, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, goluptious, ingratiating, lovely, magic, magical, orphean), гарненький (pin up), гарний (bonny, good, good looking, goodly, lovely, nice, nice-looking, well), милий (agreeable, darling, dear, decent, nice), значний (appreciable, considerable, gey, handsome, important, independent, intense, notable, respectable, smart, substantive, tidy), любий (beloved, chary, darling, dear, honey, lovable, own, precious), приємний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, dulcet, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy), прикраса (adornment, apparel, attire, beauty, bijou, decking, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, fallal, garnish, garniture, Nick nack, ornament, outset, quip, set off), дужий (beefy, bouncing, hard, hefty, iron, lusty, nervous, nervy, robust, strapping, stubbed), дрібничка (bauble, bibelot, gewgaw, knick knack, Nick nack, pinhead, pinpoint, toy, trinket), досить (amply, belay, deep, drop it, enough, fairly, nothing else, nuff, once, passable, plenty, relatively, say no more, something, sufficiently). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xinh xinh (prettily, prettyish, pretty-pretty), xinh xắn (cute, dinky, prettily, well-favoured, well-looking), xinh đẹp hay hay (prettily), xinh (bonny, fine, lovely, nice-looking, prettily), thú vị (delectable, diverting, enjoyable, entertaining, merry, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, rorty), mạnh mẽ (boot, energetic, furious, fury, impetuous, lusty, manly, mightily, pithily, rousing, sinewy, sturdy, vibrant, violent, vivid), khá (enough), kha khá hầu như, hay (fine, grand, often, oftentimes, readable, stunning), gần như (virtually), gan dạ; cường tráng, cừ (bully, classy, elegant, famously, magnificent, posh, solid, spanking, spile), đẹp mắt đẹp, đồ trang hoàng xinh xinh, $my pretty$ con nhỏ của tôi. (various references)

Welsh

tlws (brooch, gem, jewel, quaint). (various references)

Zulu

-hle (beautiful, fair, fine, good, handsome, lovely, nice, okay). (various references)

bellus. (various references)

cointe, jolif. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pretty": prettying, prettyish. (additional references)

Words ending with "pretty": unpretty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pretty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bretty, Paretti, partty, Peretti, Pershti, perthy, perti, pertie, pertty, perty, pettey, petti, Porretta, pratty, Praty, preatty, preaty, Prechtl, Preddy, preetty, preety, Prentky, prenty, Prestt, pretie, Preto, prett, prety, priety, Priti, pritt, Prittie, Pritty, prity, proddy, Proetta, prott, Protta, prpety, Prunty, prutt, prutty, Pyett, retty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: petty.

-2 letters: pert, prey, pyre, tret, trey, tyer, type, tyre, yett.

-3 letters: per, pet, pry, pye, rep, ret, rye, tet, try, tye, yep, yet.

-4 letters: er, et, pe, re, ye.

+1 letter: pottery.

+2 letters: prettify, prettily, tapestry, unpretty.

+3 letters: hypertext, optometry, paternity, posterity, prettying, prettyish, prototype, spluttery, typewrite, typewrote.

+4 letters: baptistery, hypertexts, interparty, perpetuity, photometry, protectory, prototyped, prototypes, pyrrhotite, stereotype, stereotypy, strathspey, tryptamine, typescript, typesetter, typewriter, typewrites.

+5 letters: antipoverty, antipyretic, bipartitely, electrotype, enteropathy, heterotypic, hyperstatic, intrepidity, partitively, pertinacity, pertinently, petitionary, phytosterol, postpuberty, potteringly, prematurity, prepotently, prettifying, proteolytic, pterodactyl, pyrrhotites, receptivity, repentantly, retinopathy, stereotyped, stereotyper, stereotypes, stereotypic, strathspeys, tapestrying, temperately, temporality, tetraploidy, tryptamines, tryptophane, typescripts, typesetters, typewriters, typewriting, typewritten.