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Pleasing or attractive in a graceful or delicate way. See Synonyms at beautiful.
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Clever; adroit: a pretty maneuver.
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Very bad; terrible: in a pretty predicament; a situation that has reached a pretty pass.
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Ostensibly or superficially attractive but lacking substance or conviction: full of pretty phrases.
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Informal Considerable in size or extent: a pretty fortune.
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