pretty

adj

1. pleasing, delightful, pleasant, nice, lovely, appealing, attractive, handsome, canny, Inf. eye-catching; pretty as a picture, Both Chiefly U.S. Inf. cute, cute as a button; dainty, delicate, minion, graceful, elegant; well-favored, good-looking, nice-looking, fair, Chiefly Scot. bonny, becoming, seemly, sightly, Inf. eye-filling, comely, pulchritudinous, Chiefly Literary. beauteous; beautiful, Fr. beau or belle. gorgeous, stunning, ravishing, sexy, Sl. foxy; shapely, well-shaped, well-proportioned, Inf. curvaceous, Inf. curvy, voluptuous, Sl. stacked, well-endowed, full-bosomed, buxom; fetching, charming, engaging, captivating, enthralling, enchanting, bewitching, fascinating, winsome, winning; alluring, enticing, tempting, seductive, come-hither, inviting.

2. pleasing to the ear, melodious, tuneful, dulcet, sweet-sounding, musical, silvery; velvety, smooth, golden.

3.Informal. considerable, fairly large, substantial, sizable, goodly, rather big.

n

4.Usu. pretties

ornaments, jewelry, pretty clothes, pretty things, finery.

adv

5. moderately, reasonably, fairly, passably, adequately, decently, acceptably, satisfactorily, sufficiently.

6. quite, fairly, rather, somewhat; very, really.

7. sitting pretty

Slang.a. in a good spot, in an advantageous or favorable position, in the catbird seat.b. well-to-do, well-off, in clover, Sl. on easy street, Inf. well-fixed, financially set; prosperous, rich, wealthy, fat, Inf. well-heeled, affluent, opulent, flush, moneyed, Sl. loaded, Sl. in the bucks, Sl. rolling in dough,

v

8. pretty up, prettify, make pretty, beautify. See prettify(defs. 1, 2).