Crossword clues for pretty
pretty
- "____ Woman"
- Way of sitting
- Pleasant to look at
- Like a woman in a Roy Orbison classic
- Like Orbison's woman
- Adjective in a Julia Roberts film title
- Word with penny or poison
- Word before penny or please
- What girls in music videos are
- Visually pleasing
- Somewhat — attractive
- Rita Ora song "Stay ___"
- Nine Inch Nails "___ Hate Machine"
- Like the woman in a Roy Orbison classic
- Like Orbison's "Woman"
- Like Orbison's ''Woman''
- Good to look at
- Fairly — attractive
- Fair or fairly
- Facially attractive
- Adrian Belew "___ Pink Rose"
- A kind of pass
- "I'll get you, my __,..."
- "--- Woman" (role for Roberts)
- "____ in Pink"
- 'I'll get you, my '
- Enjoying a good position
- In a good position
- Two things an attractive model should be, in advantageous position
- Tip — try setting. It could make you well-off?!
- Fairly — good-looking
- Easy on the eyes
- Quite
- One way to sit
- Comely
- With 46-Down, quite bad
- "___ Boy Floyd," 1960 film
- "___ Baby," 1916 song
- Like a cover girl
- Attractive
- Sitting ___
- Like many a model
- Quite nice
- Quite lovely
- Quite insignificant about first of results
- Quite attractive
- Quite alluring
- Fine for a non-drinker found in the quarry
- Fairly unimportant to bridge river
- Fairly; attractive
- Fairly narrow-minded about rule
- Fairly insignificant Republican is imprisoned
- Fairly easy on the eye
- Fairly - good-looking
- Attractive quarry, dry inside
- As well-placed models presumably are when sitting?
- Heartbreaker Tom assumes right to be good looking
- Have to admit it hurt so close to recognition
- Cute as a button
- Like a looker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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
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.
"a pretty person or thing," 1736, from pretty (adj.).
Wiktionary
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
To make pretty; to beautify
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"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 may refer to:
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Beauty, the quality of being pleasing, especially to look at
- Physical attractiveness, of a person's physical features
- redirect Pretty#Arts, entertainment, and media
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.