prettify

Other forms of prettify

past tense or participle

prettified

present participle

prettifying·

third person

prettifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prettify

What does prettify mean?

prettify means "make more beautiful".

How many syllables are in prettify?

prettify has 3 syllables: pret-ti-fy. The stress falls on "pret".

What is another word for prettify?

Close synonyms include fancify, beautify, embellish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prettify a common word?

prettify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.