pretty: meaning and definitions

Pleasing or attractive in a graceful or delicate way. See Synonyms at beautiful.

Clever; adroit: a pretty maneuver.

Very bad; terrible: in a pretty predicament; a situation that has reached a pretty pass.

Ostensibly or superficially attractive but lacking substance or conviction: full of pretty phrases.

Informal Considerable in size or extent: a pretty fortune.

To a fair degree; moderately: a pretty good student.

In a pretty manner; prettily or pleasingly.

One that is pretty.

Delicate clothing, especially lingerie.

To make pretty: pretty up the house.

pretty much For the most part; mostly: "The . . . matter was pretty much dying down” ( John Strahinich).