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n.
The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense.
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.
adv.
In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.
adv.
In a pretty manner.
superl.
Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
superl.
Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
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.
superl.
Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
a.
Spoken or speaking prettily.
a.
Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.
n.
A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
n.
A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
n.
An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.
n.
A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
superl.
Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.
n.
Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.
a.
Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty.
a.
Somewhat pretty.
n.
Affectation of a pretty style, manner, etc.
superl.
Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
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