English word
Pretty
Definitions
adjective
- artful, clever
- pat, apt
- pleasing by delicacy or grace
- having conventionally accepted elements of beauty
- appearing or sounding pleasant or nice but lacking strength, force, manliness, purpose, or intensity
- miserable, terrible
- stoutchiefly Scotland
- moderately large : considerable
- easy to enjoy : pleasant
Synonyms for pretty
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Synonyms by context
Pleasing to the mind or senses
adjective
- agreeable
- delightful
- felicitous
- pleasant
- pleasing
- pleasurable
- brilliant
- congenial
- delightsome
- enjoyable
(dated) Of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose
adjective
- befitting
- becoming
- fitting
- proper
- right
- suitable
- applicable
- appropriate
To a moderately high degree
adverb
- quite
- fairly
- moderately
- rather
- relatively
- somewhat
- reasonably
- comparatively
- decently
- respectably
To an acceptable degree
adverb
- adequately
- enough
- passably
- tolerably
- acceptably
- middlingly
- sufficiently
- satisfactorily
To a very large or great degree
adverb
- very
- awfully
- decidedly
- extraordinarily
- particularly
- considerably
- exceedingly
- excessively
- extremely
- incredibly
(pretty up) To make pretty or attractive
verb
- beautify
- dress
- glamorise
- glamorize
- prettify
- embellish
- primp
- prink
- smarten
- titivate
(of a thing or place) To make pretty or attractive
verb
- decorate
- do
- furbish
- redecorate
- refurbish
- retouch
- fix
- lift
- renovate
- spruce
Antonyms for pretty
- unpleasant
- bad-looking
- deformed
- disfigured
- grisly
- gruesome
- malformed
- misshapen
Opposite of aesthetically pleasing to view or look at
Opposite of pleasing to the mind or senses
(dated) Opposite of of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose
- inapplicable
- inapposite
- incongruous
- unfitting
- unsuitable
- inapt
- malapropos
- unbecoming
- improper
- inappropriate
(poorly) Opposite of to a moderately high degree
- poorly
- appallingly
- awfully
- badly
- terribly
- crudely
- ineptly
- lousily
- abysmally
- atrociously
(extremely) Opposite of to a moderately high degree
- extremely
- exceptionally
- very
- considerably
- exceedingly
- highly
- hugely
- substantially
- especially
- extensively
Opposite of to an acceptable degree
- inadequately
- deficiently
- imperfectly
- unacceptably
- unsatisfactorily
- incompletely
- ineffectively
- ineffectually
- partially
- incompetently
(pretty up) Opposite of to make pretty or attractive
- disfigure
- deform
- mutilate
- scar
- blemish
- maim
- uglify
- disfashion
- disfeature
- mangle
(of a thing or place) Opposite of to make pretty or attractive
- deface
- ruin
- tarnish
- vandalise
- vandalize
- wreck
- damage
- spoil
- vitiate
- destroy
Phrases
- aesthetically appealing
- aesthetically pleasing
- all heart
- all right
- as nice as pie
- as pure as the driven snow
- as ugly as sin
- doll face
- drawing attention
- drop-dead gorgeous
- easy on the eye
- extremely attractive
- good egg
- good looking
- hard on the eyes
- in good taste
- larger than life
- not appealing
- on fleek
- out of shape