Usually means: Attractive in a delicate way.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pretty: Merriam-Webster
  3. pretty, pretty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pretty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pretty: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pretty: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pretty, pretty: Wordnik
  8. pretty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pretty, pretty: Wiktionary
  10. pretty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pretty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pretty: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pretty, pretty: Dictionary.com
  14. pretty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pretty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pretty (Ugly Before), Pretty (advertisement): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. pretty: Rhymezone
  18. pretty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pretty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pretty: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pretty: ESL Idiom Page
  22. pretty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pretty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Pretty: World Wide Words
  25. pretty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Pretty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  27. Pretty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  28. pretty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretty: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretty: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. pretty: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See prettied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
adjective:  Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
adjective:  (often derogatory) Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty.
adjective:  (UK, sometimes derogatory) Effeminate.
adjective:  Cunning; clever, skilful.
adjective:  (dated) Moderately large; considerable.
adjective:  (dated) Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.).
adjective:  (ironic) Awkward, unpleasant, bad.
adjective:  (programming, of code) Matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.
adverb:  Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
adverb:  (dialect) Prettily, in a pretty manner.
noun:  A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
noun:  Something that is pretty.
verb:  To make pretty; to beautify
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative form of Preeti; A female given name from Sanskrit. [A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.]

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