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Pretty Attractive Prettiness Describe Charming Prettily She's Girl

query
If you describe someone as p_____, you mean that they are attractive .If you describe someone as pretty, you mean that they are attractive .
She's a very charming and very pretty girl.
She smiled again, prettily.
Her prettiness had been much admired.
word pretty
full-definition
adjective
If you describe someone as pretty, you mean that they are attractive .
She's a very charming and very pretty girl.
She smiled again, prettily.
Her prettiness had been much admired.
A place or a thing that is pretty is attractive and pleasant, in a charming but not particularly unusual way.
Whitstable is still a very pretty little town.
...comfortable sofas covered in a pretty floral print.
The living-room was prettily decorated.
...shells of quite unbelievable prettiness.
adverb
You can use pretty before an adjective or adverb to mean 'quite' or ' rather '.
I had a pretty good idea what she was going to do.
Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.
inflections prettierprettiestprettilyprettinessprettilyprettiness
cefr-level A1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1

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