- Types Of Speech
- You can use pretty as a adverb or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Pretty
- A 2 syllables adverb and 6 letters with the letters e, p, r, t, and y, 5 consonants, 1 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters et. Pretty starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, pr, pre, pret, prett, and the ending characters are y, ty, tty, etty, retty, . Pretty is also a double consonant (tt) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Pretty is set as a kindergarten word that starts with p, ends with y, 2 syllables, 1 vowels and 6 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is pretty a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Pretty in Pig Latin is said as "ettypray or ettyprway".
- Unigram
- p | r | e | t | t | y
- Bigram
- pr | re | et | tt | ty
- Trigram
- pre | ret | ett | tty
- Quadrigram
- pret | rett | etty
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- pleasing by delicacy or grace;
not imposing;
"pretty girl";
"pretty song";
"pretty room" - (used ironically) unexpectedly bad;
"a pretty mess";
"a pretty kettle of fish"
- Adverb Examples
- used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain);
"pretty big";
"pretty bad";
"jolly decent of him"
Synonym | Definition |
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About | (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct "lasted approximately an hour" "in just about a minute" "he''s about 30 years old" "I''ve had about all I can stand" "we meet about once a month" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundre |
Acceptably | in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner "she plays tennis tolerably" |
Adequately | in an adequate manner |
Adroit | quick or skillful or adept in action or thought "an exceptionally adroit pianist" "an adroit technician" "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers" "an adroit negotiator" |
Aesthetic | (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful "he despised the esthetic of minimalism" |
Aesthetically Appealing | |
All Too | |
Almighty | terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God |
Amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
Appealing | able to attract interest or draw favorable attention "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett "an appealing sense of humor" "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Pretty
Name | Male | Female |
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Pretty | No | No |
Similar Word | Definition |
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Beautiful | aesthetically pleasing |
Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Pay Rate (8 letters) | |||||
Decrypt (7 letters) | 15 +4 | 16 +5 | decrypt |
Pretty Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters