Crafty; cunning; clever; shrewd; keen.
Strong and bold; warlike; accomplished in arms.
Comely; handsome; good-looking; hence, in later use, pleasing to the esthetic sense; attractive through grace, elegance, neatness, harmony of parts, or delicacy of outline or coloring; having delicate beauty; pleasing the eye or ear rather than impressing the mind: as, a pretty face; a pretty cottage; a pretty picture.
Hence Affectedly neat or fastidious about one's personal appearance; finical; foppish.
Pleasing in general; pleasing to the mind; interesting; entertaining; gratifying.
Excellent; good; fine; nice: said loosely, like fine and nice, of almost any object or action as a general term of commendation, and also, like fine and nice, often used ironically, especially in exclamatory sentences.
Good or sufficient; moderately large in quantity, number, extent, duration, etc.; considerable.
A term of endearment, supplying the place of a diminutive.
Synonyms Handsome, Fair, etc. See beautiful.
Moderately; reasonably; tolerably: expressing a degree less than very: as, a farm pretty well stocked; pretty good lodgings; I am pretty sure of the fact.