pretty

Other forms of pretty

comparative or superlative

prettier

comparative or superlative

prettiest

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 pretty

What does pretty mean?

pretty means "pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pretty?

pretty has 2 syllables: pret-ty. The stress falls on "pret". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɪti/.

What is another word for pretty?

Close synonyms include reasonably, moderately, jolly, somewhat, fairly. 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 pretty a common word?

pretty is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.