Chiefly poetic. Of a woman or child: graceful and elegant in manners or appearance. Obsolete (archaic in later use).
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释义 | the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective] > pretty (24) gentc1275 Chiefly poetic. Of a woman or child: graceful and elegant in manners or appearance. Obsolete (archaic in later use). pretty1440 Of a person, esp. a woman or child: attractive and pleasing in appearance; good-looking, esp. in a delicate or diminutive way. jant1638 variant of gent, adj. n.1adv. Obsolete. dimber1665 Pretty. belle1668 Pretty, handsome. Obsolete as English. genty1701 Suitable for or characteristic of a genteel person; dainty, pretty, graceful. prettyish1741 Fairly pretty or attractive. maidenish-looking1789 darling1805 Sweetly pretty or charming, ‘sweet’. affected. pooty1825 = pretty, adj. pitty1826 Pretty. purty1829 = pretty, adj. Also as n.: = pretty, n. mooi1850 Pretty; good; nice. dotey1852 Of a person, animal, etc.: dear, darling; lovable, sweet, cute. Also occasionally of things: charming, pretty. cute1868 (originally U.S. colloquial and Schoolboy slang.) Used of things in same way as cunning, adj. 6. Now in general colloquial use, applied to people as… Subcategories:— inanely pretty (3) — pretty and plump (6) |
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