1. Very pleasing to the eye
   "my pretty lass";
   - bonny [UK, dialect], bonnie [UK, dialect], comely [archaic], fair, sightly
    
2. Pleasing by delicacy or grace
   "pretty room"; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"
    
3. [informal] (used ironically) unexpectedly bad
   "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"

1. To a certain extent or degree
   "pretty big";
   - reasonably, moderately, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably, middlingly, averagely

1. Make attractive or pretty
   "She prettied up the room with fresh flowers"

1. (informal) an attractive person, typically a woman or girl
   "She's considered the pretty of the family"

Derived forms: prettier, pretties, prettied, prettiest, prettying

See also: bad, beautiful

Encyclopedia: Pretty, Baby, Machine