pretty much

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   to some degree

   “we were pretty much lost when we met the forest ranger”

Questions about pretty much

What does pretty much mean?

pretty much means "to some degree".

Is pretty much a common word?

pretty much 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.