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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pretty
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sweet/pretty/lovely melody (=pleasant)
▪ The pianist played a sweet melody.
fairly/pretty normal
▪ His family all seem pretty normal.
lovely/pretty/beautiful
▪ They admired the lovely flowers in the garden.
pretty good idea
▪ The police have a pretty good idea who did it.
pretty luckyinformal (= lucky, but not extremely lucky)
▪ We were pretty lucky with the weather on this holiday.
pretty sure
▪ I’m pretty sure it was the same woman who called the office last week.
pretty/beautiful/handsome etc
▪ Her face was beautiful in the morning light.
pretty/fairly useless
▪ The book is pretty useless for today's students.
pretty/picturesque
▪ There are many pretty villages nearby.
quite/pretty cold
▪ It’s going to be quite cold today.
rather/pretty expensive (=more expensive than you expect)
▪ I think £1000 for a bed is rather expensive.
rather/pretty/quite/fairly unlikely
▪ I may have thrown it away by mistake, but that’s pretty unlikely.
very/extremely/quite/pretty etc clever
▪ Lucy is quite clever and does well at school.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
▪ Everybody tries to be as cool as possible but actually what you're feeling is something pretty bad.
▪ Their only reference point for retail and high density residential are pretty bad examples.
▪ But by yesterday, it was pretty bad.
▪ I could see everybody was feeling pretty bad.
▪ It must have been pretty bad, for Mrs Whitfield to change like this.
▪ Well, your car is in pretty bad shape.
▪ He decided that school was not somewhere he would like to go at this point because he looked pretty bad.
▪ Frankly I feel pretty bad for Mary Jane, honestly I do.
big
▪ These things are pretty big and it's a shame to waste such a large resource of petrochemicals.
▪ I had made a pretty big mistake in how I handled it.
▪ Masklin was used to labels in the Store, but this was pretty big even by big label standards.
▪ That was a pretty big play.
▪ It's pretty big too because we've been talking about women.
▪ It was a pretty big brownie.
▪ I can't see too much of it, cos it's still dark, but it looks pretty big.
▪ Some of them were pretty big.
clear
▪ He said something - I forget what, but it was pretty clear he didn't trust me.
▪ And there are still pretty clear task responsibilities.
▪ In my treatment I had, I thought, made it pretty clear what Gary was like.
▪ The Republican intentions with Medicare are pretty clear.
▪ It is pretty clear that the reason Z fails in Z6 is that 6 is a composite integer.
▪ Anyway, it will be pretty clear.
▪ A flower or two, but apart from that she made it pretty clear she preferred the money direct.
▪ Most of those answers are pretty clear.
close
▪ In speed terms the RapidCad is pretty close to the theoretical speed of a 486 without burst I/O and cache controller.
▪ It's pretty close to the real thing.
▪ Donna consulted the directions on the sheet of paper and realized that they must be pretty close to their destination.
good
▪ It looks pretty good fun, driving that thing.
▪ Tango is a pretty good thing to play.
▪ You're pretty good at getting on with people, aren't you?
▪ Clinton and Gore have a pretty good tale to tell.
▪ That might be a pretty good arrangement, just to help make associations.
▪ In reality, the buyer thought Harry's original price was pretty good.
▪ People smart enough to plunge into bond funds last year are probably feeling pretty good.
hard
▪ Said he was as stiff as a ramrod and would get nowhere, but he's pretty hard on people anyway.
▪ If they were captured by the Border Security Forces, well, it was pretty hard to extract information from a camel.
▪ The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat.
▪ Tiger Woods is the elephant standing at the first tee, and it's pretty hard to ignore him.
▪ That hit me pretty hard, because I don't feel right about it anyway!
▪ So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
▪ It is pretty hard to see how such mechanical interactions can give rise to consciousness.
▪ The Highway Patrol was working pretty hard.
little
▪ The entire menu is portioned up into pretty little bowls; go and collect what you want and pay at the 611.
▪ All kinds of pretty little girls were cutting down the darkening street.
▪ Inchbad was pleased to see Fenella, pretty little thing, approach them.
▪ Alpinestars' singer, Glyn Thomas, is sitting in a pub in Fulham and yawning his pretty little head off.
▪ Sandi and Mrs Fanning found themselves in a pretty little parlor with a couch and lamps and a stack of perfumed towels.
▪ She was like a clever, pretty little fox.
▪ This pretty little fern prefers a well-draining site.
obvious
▪ It's pretty obvious that Kurt Cobain has been running on reserve tanks for most of this Euro-jaunt.
▪ They were pretty obvious in the old days.
▪ These warnings aside-and they're pretty obvious-don't hold back.
▪ That's pretty obvious....
▪ But it's pretty obvious where that ridiculous attraction came from.
▪ It was pretty obvious he made the right decision.
▪ It seems pretty obvious they both attend the same origami evening class.
▪ Which was pretty obvious, really.
strong
▪ Elephants, by all accounts, were pretty strong too.
▪ When a person is willing to do that, he must have a pretty strong will.
▪ It looks pretty strong stuff - useful like.
▪ And apparently as holy symbols go it's. pretty strong.
sure
▪ A glance at the map made Charles pretty sure that that gun was now in the Thames.
▪ Marine scientists were pretty sure a coral reef, like any complex ecosystem, must be assembled in the correct order.
▪ But she was pretty sure Uncle Albert would find it interesting.
▪ Paul was pretty sure he did.
▪ I was pretty sure it must have been Maggie, but it would be nice to make sure.
▪ If they weren't there, they were pretty sure to be in Woolworths.
▪ I was pretty sure Dilip would find the dang about as interesting as mud.
tough
▪ This combination offers a lightweight, yet pretty tough material which doesn't fee too synthetic.
▪ This athletic racket is a pretty tough thing at that.
▪ Fish are pretty tough and if anglers are careful they suffer very little damage.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as pretty/smart etc as the dickens
be in a (pretty) pickle
be sitting pretty
▪ At that stage in the campaign, she was sitting pretty in the polls.
come to a pretty/sorry pass
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "It's pretty tough work," he wearily confessed.
▪ I felt pretty nervous going into the exam, but after I got started I loosened up some.
▪ I thought the test was pretty easy.
▪ It's pretty cold today.
▪ Six o'clock? That's pretty early.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I had to divert him pretty quickly!
▪ I was pretty sure Dilip would find the dang about as interesting as mud.
▪ Perception was pretty much neurophysiology: sensory inhibition, Mach band phenomena, iconic storage, and the like.
▪ The problem is that the core looks pretty rotten.
▪ We are certainly setting pretty right now.
▪ Well, that was pretty dumb of me, to even consider doing something so demeaning, I thought.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boy
▪ If you take away the image all that's left is a bunch of exceptionally pretty boys making some very ordinary music.
▪ My my my, whatta pretty boy you are.
▪ You are a pretty boy, isn't he a pretty boy, Bob?
▪ Who was that pretty boy in Ovid?
▪ You are a pretty boy, isn't he a pretty boy, Bob?
▪ Stay pretty, there's a good boy. 1 bet your young girl likes pretty boys.
dress
▪ That's a very pretty dress you're wearing.
▪ She told him to bring her a pretty dress and her best handkerchief.
▪ She took particular care with her preparations and chose a light, pretty dress and sensational earrings.
▪ Drowsily, achingly she allowed him to explore her flesh where it was revealed above the neckline of her pretty dress.
▪ But I've walked past so many pretty dresses and little socks with lacy tops, I'd almost given up.
▪ In a lighter mood, shaped pretty dresses are stamped with graphic modern florals.
▪ They were very clean and tidy, and Phyllis was wearing her prettiest dress.
▪ She seldom wore the pretty dresses or smart suits that Scarlet bought her, preferring her rags.
face
▪ He was always a horrid little boy for all his pretty face, and now he's a horrid man.
▪ He could be suckered in by a soft story or a pretty face.
▪ But she had the prettiest face and the sweetest smile you've ever seen.
▪ Her dark, pretty face glittered there in front of me.
▪ And his pretty face hasn't changed in all that time.
▪ Her hair was parted in the middle and drawn back from a round, pretty face.
▪ Pity to cut such a pretty face but she'd asked for it.
▪ Tis not a feeling of yesterday, to be effaced by the first pretty face which crosses my path.
garden
▪ The pretty garden has its own trout lake.
▪ It has ten acres of land and a pretty garden of roses and rhododendrons.
▪ The guest lounge overlooks the pretty garden.
girl
▪ He'd fallen in love with a pretty girl who had nice ways and was sweet to kiss and cuddle.
▪ There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.
▪ Martha is a pretty girl, self-assured and opinionated, quite a handful.
▪ Out of the mouth of this serious, pretty girl came an impenetrable, sub-literate provincial dialect.
▪ There were some pretty girls, too.
▪ It's like life itself - the prettiest girls are always on the Up escalator when you're on the Down.
▪ Or, if you will marry pretty girls.
good
▪ But I got this story pretty good, I think.
penny
▪ At one time, Mr Jarvis the coalman paid a pretty penny just to park his waggons there.
▪ It had, whatever way, and all night long for all she knew, to amount to a pretty penny.
picture
▪ And the charter made a pretty picture.
▪ Not a pretty picture, is it?
▪ But the countryside is more than just a pretty picture.
▪ This is not going to be a pretty picture.
▪ All in all, not a pretty picture.
▪ She wanted more than the two dimensions of pretty pictures, more than the garbled pidgin of kitchen natives.
▪ To the untrained eye, pretty pictures count for more than interesting spectra; neither are they without scientific interest.
▪ However, we were able to obtain the results for 1989 through 1991, and they do not paint a pretty picture.
sight
▪ It's not a pretty sight to finish in a classic fire and fall position.
▪ It may turn out to be a pleasant surprise or a not-so-pretty sight.
▪ It is not a pretty sight to see people so hurt.
▪ And now we have the unlikely and not altogether pretty sight of Bob Dole tearing up in public like a road-company Pagliacci.
▪ Afterwards I visited the boys and they were not a pretty sight.
▪ Not a pretty sight -- they went far beyond editorial endorsement.
▪ It's really a pretty sight, captain, built of Tennessee marble like one of those old palaces in Florence.
▪ He is not a pretty sight.
thing
▪ A school-boy's exercise may be a pretty thing for a school-boy; but is no treat for a man.
▪ She was most the prettiest thing I ever looked at, and her eyes were shut.
▪ Now all the pretty things sat around in the present, and all they did was make her regret the past.
▪ It was the prettiest thing I ever saw.
village
▪ Now it is a pretty village, much frequented by tourists.
▪ Cycling: Cycle hire is available in the town centre and many pretty villages are within easy reach.
▪ Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children's zoo.
▪ Caldbeck is a pretty village with several attractions, including a spinning workshop and John Peel's grave.
woman
▪ His head would never again be turned by a pretty woman.
▪ Secondtier pretty women have senses of humor because we have to. 6.
▪ He saw a rather pretty woman, not very young, with an air of good breeding that somehow attracted him.
▪ She was at times a pretty woman.
▪ Oh, pretty woman, walk my way!
▪ A clever, pretty woman who was certain to delight Tsu Ma.
▪ I figured from my vantage point that the pretty women went west, and the smart ones went east.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pretty flowers
▪ A pretty girl like you should have a boyfriend.
▪ a pretty village on the Suffolk border
▪ Doesn't she look pretty with her hair up?
▪ Maureen's really pretty, isn't she?
▪ Nancy is younger than I am and much prettier.
▪ She has a pretty face.
▪ The room was decorated with pretty wallpaper with yellow flowers on it.
▪ They had an aquarium with lots of pretty little fish.
▪ We walked down the pretty, tree-lined avenue.
▪ What a pretty watch!
▪ You have a really pretty voice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A very long time ago, she must have been pretty.
▪ And see how he always touches her head, gives her the prettiest ribbons for her braid?
▪ I felt really emotional as I gazed at her, realising how fast my pretty little girl was growing up.
▪ She was at times a pretty woman.
▪ Their pretty lace design is repeated on the side tables, lamps and blanket box.
▪ Then she added, My sister will be even prettier.
▪ They were far from being a pretty sight but he forced himself to carry out as thorough an investigation as he could.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pretty

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune. ``Wavering a pretty while.''
    --Evelyn.

  3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.

    The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world.
    --Spectator.

  4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.

  5. 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.

Pretty

Pretty \Pret"ty\, adv. In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian.
--Atterbury.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pretty

Old English prættig (West Saxon), pretti (Kentish), *prettig (Mercian) "cunning, skillful, artful, wily, astute," from prætt, *prett "a trick, wile, craft," from Proto-Germanic *pratt- (cognates: Old Norse prettr "a trick," prettugr "tricky;" Frisian pret, Middle Dutch perte, Dutch pret "trick, joke," Dutch prettig "sportive, funny," Flemish pertig "brisk, clever"), of unknown origin.\n

\nConnection between Old English and Middle English words is uncertain, but if they are the same, meaning had shifted by c.1400 to "manly, gallant," and later moved via "attractive, skillfully made," to "fine," to "beautiful in a slight way" (mid-15c.). Ironical use from 1530s. For sense evolution, compare nice, silly. Also used of bees (c.1400). "After the OE. period the word is unknown till the 15th c., when it becomes all at once frequent in various senses, none identical with the OE., though derivable from it" [OED]. \n

\nMeaning "not a few, considerable" is from late 15c. With a sense of "moderately," qualifying adjectives and adverbs, since 1560s. Pretty please as an emphatic plea is attested from 1902. A pretty penny "lot of money" is first recorded 1768.

pretty

"a pretty person or thing," 1736, from pretty (adj.).

pretty

1916, usually with up, from pretty (adj.). Related: Prettied; prettying. Compare prettify.

Wiktionary
pretty
  1. 1 cunning; clever, skilful. (from 9th c.) 2 pleasant in sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. (from 15th c.) adv. somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. n. Something that is pretty. v

  2. To make pretty; to beautify

WordNet
pretty
  1. adj. 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"

  3. [also: prettied, prettiest, prettier]

pretty
  1. adv. used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain); "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him" [syn: jolly]

  2. [also: prettied, prettiest, prettier]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Pretty (Ugly Before)

"Pretty (Ugly Before)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. It was released as a limited-edition 7" vinyl single in 2003 by record label Suicide Squeeze, Smith's final single released while alive. It was later re-released by Domino in 2004, and appeared on Smith's posthumous final album, From a Basement on the Hill.

Pretty

Pretty may refer to:

  • Beauty, the quality of being pleasing, especially to look at
    • Physical attractiveness, of a person's physical features
Pretty (song)
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Pretty (advertisement)

Pretty (or I Feel Pretty) is a television advertisement launched in 2006 by Nike, Inc. to promote its Nike Women brand of sportswear. The 60-second spot was handled by advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, Oregon. The advert stars Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova in her first appearance as a spokesperson for the brand. Pretty debuted on U.S. television on August 20, 2006, with later appearances in cinemas and in print advertisements. It was directed by Czech director Ivan Zacharias, with post-production and VFX work by The Mill.

The piece was a critical and popular success. It garnered several prestigious awards from the advertising and television industries, including two Cannes Gold Lions and a Gold Effie Award.

Usage examples of "pretty".

It was the residence of two sisters--the elder extremely ugly and the younger very pretty, but the elder sister was accounted, and very rightly, the Corinna of the place.

The acroterion is cast in the reclining form of a pretty young man, hands bound above his head, ankles bound as well, and a gag tied tightly across his mouth.

Never mind that the only thing he was trying on for size was a pretty thesis advisee named Kim Silverman.

And Alleluia, shy, reserved and scholarly, owning a voice that was no more than pretty, and hopeless at managing people.

Besides, the alligator farms have pretty much taken the profit out of poaching.

No one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them--the alliteration of modesty and merit is pretty enough, but where merit is great, the veil of that modesty you admire never disguises its extent from its possessor.

He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty girl.

In fact, the act may pretty much be necessary for a universe where the anthropic principle obtains.

Henry, laughing at the antics of a trio of jugglers, shared a cup of wine with a pretty young woman who looked a few years younger than Sanglant.

It might have been that quixotism had inspired his infatuate gesture, but it might quite as conceivably have been everyday vanity or plain cussedness: a noble impulse to serve a pretty lady in distress, a spontaneous device to engage her interest, or a low desire to plague a personality as antipathetic to his own as that of a rattlesnake.

They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again--nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long.

It was pretty much what the microphone had been picking up from the start: the inconsequential prattle of a couple in the privacy of their own apartment, as apposed to intelligence secrets, which SNIPER collected at the university or his government offices.

The dear man was not however making a bad bargain, for the difference in the value of assignats with which he had paid and the good sound money he would receive made a pretty profit.

She had always regarded herself as a pretty fair player, but the Autocrat was head and shoulders above her.

She was so much back to normal, so much enjoying herself, that she did not even notice Adam was strolling to the door or that the Frenchman was leaving his two pretty girls- Bannerman had rejoined Bradley with a joking remark, while Bradley ordered something to eat with a look of distaste for the limited menu.