Pretty Poems About Love

Pretty is used to tone down a statement and is in wide use across the whole spectrum of english. See examples of pretty used in a sentence. We can use pretty as an adverb, before an adjective or another adverb, meaning ‘quite, but not extremely’.

That's a pretty hat you're wearing. 2 days agowhen particularly stressed, the adverb pretty serves almost to diminish the adjective or adverb that it modifies, by emphasizing that there are greater levels of intensity. The qualifying adverb pretty, meaning "fairly or moderately'' has been in general use since the late 16th century.

There are 20 meanings listed in oed's entry for the word pretty, four of which are labelled obsolete. If you describe someone as pretty, you mean that they are attractive. She's a very charming and very pretty girl.