OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 7365

pretty

/ˈpɹɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bonito • guapo • lindo • monono
Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
Hal Smith, manager of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, one of the largest and prettiest outskirt houses in town, played Metro's "Revelation" for three days last week
Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, f…
ingenioso • listo
Cunning; clever, skilful.
In the end, however, it was a very pretty shot, right across the chasm; killed first fire, and the brute fell headlong into the brook […].
📚 adv • entry_id 7366

pretty

/ˈpɹɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bastante • bien
Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
By the Sheets you have sent me to peruse, the Account you have given of her Birth and Parentage is pretty exact [...].
It seems pretty clear that organic beings must be exposed during several generations to the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; […]