Definition of pretty

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Pretty (superl.) Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.

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Pretty :: Pretty (superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow..
Pipsissewa :: Pipsissewa (n.) A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine..
Handsome :: Handsome (superl.) Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse..
Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..
Bloodroot :: Bloodroot (n.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria..
Prettyism :: Prettyism (n.) Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc..
Pretty :: Pretty (superl.) 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..
Liverwort :: Liverwort (n.) A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
Deutzia :: Deutzia (n.) A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated..
Figure :: Figure (n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure..
Gewgaw :: Gewgaw (n.) A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
Creature :: Creature (n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature..
Prettyish :: Prettyish (a.) Somewhat pretty.
Feat :: Feat (n.) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.
Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
Plumbago :: Plumbago (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort..
Pretty :: Pretty (superl.) Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune..
Gimcrack :: Gimcrack (n.) A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
Cyclamen :: Cyclamen (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms..
Pretty :: Pretty (adv.) In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather..
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