pretty

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Pleasing or attractive in a graceful or delicate way. See Synonyms at beautiful.
2. adj. Clever; adroit: a pretty maneuver.
3. adj. Very bad; terrible: in a pretty predicament; a situation that has reached a pretty pass.
4. adj. Ostensibly or superficially attractive but lacking substance or conviction: full of pretty phrases.
5. adj. Informal Considerable in size or extent: a pretty fortune.
6. adv. To a fair degree; moderately: a pretty good student.
7. adv. In a pretty manner; prettily or pleasingly.
8. n. One that is pretty.
9. n. Delicate clothing, especially lingerie.
10. v. To make pretty: pretty up the house.
11. idiom. pretty much For the most part; mostly: "The . . . matter was pretty much dying down” ( John Strahinich).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Crafty; cunning; clever; shrewd; keen.
2. Strong and bold; warlike; accomplished in arms.
3. 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. In this use the word implies a certain slightness, limitation, or lack of power, and hence is easily made depreciative in cases where these attributes are out of place.
4. Hence Affectedly neat or fastidious about one's personal appearance; finical; foppish.
5. Pleasing in general; pleasing to the mind; interesting; entertaining; gratifying.
6. 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.
7. Good or sufficient; moderately large in quantity, number, extent, duration, etc.; considerable.
8. A term of endearment, supplying the place of a diminutive.
9. Synonyms Handsome, Fair, etc. See beautiful.
10. 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.

Wiktionary

1. adv. Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
2. n. Something that is pretty.
3. v. To make pretty; to beautify

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. 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
2. adj. Moderately large; considerable.
3. adj. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
4. adj. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically
5. adj. Scot. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.
6. adv. In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
2. adj. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
3. adj. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad