pretty
US: /ˈpɹɪti/
UK: /pɹˈɪti/
UK: /pɹˈɪti/
English Vietnamese dictionary
pretty /'priti/
- tính từ
- xinh, xinh xinh, xinh xắn, xinh đẹp
- a pretty child: đứa bé xinh xắn
- hay hay, thú vị, đẹp mắt
- a pretty story: câu chuyện hay hay thú vị
- a pretty song: bài hát hay hay
- a pretty scenery: cảnh đẹp mắt
- đẹp, hay, cừ, tốt...
- a pretty wit: trí thông minh cừ lắm
- a very pretty sport: môn thể thao rất tốt, môn thể thao rất hay
- (mỉa mai) hay gớm, hay ho gớm
- that is a pretty business: việc hay ho gớm
- a pretty mess you have made!: anh làm được cái việc hay ho gớm!
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) lớn, kha khá
- to earn a pretty sum: kiếm được món tiền kha khá
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) dũng cảm, gan dạ; cường tráng, mạnh mẽ
- a pretty dellow: một người dũng cảm
- xinh, xinh xinh, xinh xắn, xinh đẹp
- danh từ
- my pretty con nhỏ của tôi, bé xinh của mẹ
- (số nhiều) đồ xinh xắn, đồ trang hoàng xinh xinh
- phó từ
- khá, kha khá
- pretty good: khá tốt
- pretty hot: khá nóng
- pretty much
- hầu như, gần như
- that is pretty much the same thing: cái đó thì hầu như cũng như vậy thôi (chắng khác gì)
- khá, kha khá
Advanced English dictionary
adverb, adjective
+ adverb (especially spoken) (with adjectives and adverbs)
1 to some extent; fairly: I'm pretty sure I'll be going. + The game was pretty good. + It's pretty hard to explain. + I'm going to have to find a new apartment pretty soon. - QUITE
2 very: That performance was pretty impressive. + Things are looking pretty good!
Idioms: pretty much / well (BrE also pretty nearly) (AmE also pretty near) (spoken) almost; almost completely: One dog looks pretty much like another to me. + He goes out pretty well every night. + The first stage is pretty near finished.
more at SIT
+ adjective (prettier, prettiest)
1 (especially of a woman, or a girl) attractive without being very beautiful: a pretty face + a pretty little girl + You look so pretty in that dress!
2 (of places or things) attractive and pleasant to look at or to listen to without being large, beautiful or impressive: pretty clothes / flowers + a pretty garden / village / room + a pretty voice / name
prettily adverb (especially BrE): She laughed prettily. + The rooms are simply but prettily furnished.
prettiness noun [U]: the prettiness of youth
Idioms: as pretty as a picture (old-fashioned) very pretty: She's as pretty as a picture.
not just a pretty face (humorous) used to emphasize that you have particular skills or qualities: 'I didn't know you could play the piano.' 'I'm not just a pretty face, you know!'
not a pretty sight (humorous) not pleasant to look at: You should have seen him in his swimming trunks-not a pretty sight!
a pretty penny (old-fashioned) a lot of money: I bet that cost you a pretty penny.
more at PASS n.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 comely, attractive, good-looking, nice-looking, appealing, lovely, cute, mignon(ne), graceful, fair, bonny, fetching, charming, winsome, beautiful, pulchritudinous, Colloq easy on the eye(s):
A pretty girl is like a melody. That's a very pretty cottage.
2 tuneful, melodic, melodious, dulcet, musical, lyrical, harmonious, catchy, mellifluous, euphonious:
He played a pretty tune on the piano.
adv.
3 rather, quite, fairly, moderately, reasonably, tolerably; somewhat; very, extremely, unbelievably, incredibly:
The children put on a pretty good performance, I thought. He had become pretty fat since we last saw him.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, look
ADV.
exceptionally, extremely, ravishingly, really, strikingly, very, wonderfully | almost | quite, rather | undeniably
Concise English dictionary
prettied|prettier|prettiest|pretties|prettying'prɪtɪ
adj.
+pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
+(used ironically) unexpectedly bad
adv.
+used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain)
