(prettier, prettiest)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you describe someone, especially a girl, as ~, you mean that they look nice and are attractive in a delicate way.
She’s a very charming and very ~ girl.
ADJ
prettily
She smiled again, prettily.
ADV
prettiness
Her prettiness had been much admired.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A place or a thing that is ~ is attractive and pleasant, in a charming but not particularly unusual way.
Whitstable is still a very ~ little town.
ADJ
prettily
The living-room was prettily decorated.
ADV
prettiness
...shells of quite unbelievable prettiness.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
You can use ~ before an adjective or adverb to mean ‘quite’ or ‘rather’. (INFORMAL)
I had a ~ good idea what she was going to do...
Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.
ADV: ADV adj/adv
4.
Pretty much or ~ well means ‘almost’. (INFORMAL)
His new government looks ~ much like the old one...
PHRASE