Crossword clues for prettiest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pretty \Pret"ty\, a. [Compar. Prettier; superl. Prettiest.] [OE. prati, AS. pr[ae]ttig, pr[ae]tig, crafty, sly, akin to pr[ae]t, pr[ae]tt, deceit, trickery, Icel. prettugr tricky, prettr a trick; probably fr. Latin, perhaps through Celtic; cf. W. praith act, deed, practice, LL. practica execution, practice, plot. See Practice.]
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Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.
This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward.
--Shak. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune. ``Wavering a pretty while.''
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Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world.
--Spectator. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
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Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [Scot.]
[He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome.
--Sir W. Scott.Syn: Elegant; neat; fine. See Handsome.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativepretty)
WordNet
See pretty
Usage examples of "prettiest".
Jessie, of course, had settled right in, commandeering the prettiest bedroom as her own and cajoling Lucinda into redecorating it to her specifications.
A couple of medics, a young black woman with cornrowed hair and the prettiest chocolate eyes I’d ever seen, and a stocky red-haired man who reminded me of Red Buttons, arrived toting tackle boxes full of medical supplies and gear, and hunkered down next to me.
Then she rolled it into the banquet hall, and, naturally, all the goddesses there immediately claimed it, each one saying that she was 'the prettiest one.
She wrote Korhhisti, on it, to the prettiest one, and rolled it into the banquet hall.
And they knew that each god and goddess, and each man and woman, was in the privacy of the heart, the prettiest one, the fairest.
Now I couldn't rightly say how old she was, not being any judge of years on a woman, but I'd guess she was fifteen or sixteen, and the prettiest thing I ever put an eye to.
She had beautiful big dark eyes and long lashes and she was about the prettiest thing I ever did see.
Do you know, I saw the prettiest hat you can imagine, in a shop window in Milsom Street just now -- very like yours, only with coquelicot ribbons instead of green.
And here have I been telling all my acquaintance that I was going to dance with the prettiest girl in the room.
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.
The fireplace, where she had expected the ample width and ponderous carving of former times, was contracted to a Rumford, with slabs of plain though handsome marble, and ornaments over it of the prettiest English china.
And she had on the prettiest things--orange and brown with gold, and new earrings .
She was the prettiest of the female bridge officers and he was old enough to appreciate her presence.
Why did the dragonmen need to steal away the prettiest women among the Holders when they had women of their own in the Weyr proper?
Webb had always been able to get any woman he wanted, even the prettiest ones.