Pretty

['prɪtɪ] or ['prɪti]

解釋/意思:

(adj.) pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; 'pretty girl'; 'pretty song'; 'pretty room' .

(adj.) (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; 'a pretty mess'; 'a pretty kettle of fish' .

布雷特整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.

(superl.) Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.

(superl.) Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.

(superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.

(superl.) Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.

(adv.) In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

錄入:万斯

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Beautiful (without dignity or grandeur), HANDSOME, elegant, comely, fine, neat, trim, fair.

ad. Moderately, tolerably, considerably, in some degree.

斐迪南整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Handsome, attractive, neat, trim, tasteful, pleasing, beautiful, fine, comely,[See ATTRACTIVE_and_HANDSOME]

厄纳校對

解釋/意思:

adj. tasteful: pleasing to the eye: having attractive but not striking beauty: neat: beautiful without dignity: small: affected: moderately large considerable: puny weak (a term of endearment): (in contempt) fine: (obs.) shrewd cunning: (obs.) strong warlike.—adv. in some degree: moderately.—v.t. Prett′ify to make pretty in an excessively ornamental way.—adv. Prett′ily in a pretty manner: pleasingly: elegantly: neatly.—n. Prett′iness.—adj. Prett′yish somewhat pretty.—n. Prett′ypretty (coll.) a knick-knack.—adj. Prett′y-spō′ken speaking or spoken prettily.—Pretty much very nearly.

整理:瓦莱丽