| 单词 | pretty |
| 释义 | pretty (once / 35 pages) 1adjadv 2adj Use the word pretty to describe something with a delicate and pleasant appearance. Something that’s pretty is less powerful and intimidating than something that’s beautiful, the way a pretty floral raincoat is less intimidating than a beautiful film star. The adjective pretty describes things that look nice, but it can also be used jokingly to say that something’s bad. If you say, “That’s a pretty mess you got me into!” that means it’s a bad mess. Pretty has an adverb form that means something is present to a moderate degree, another way to say fairly. You might be pretty sure you’ll be done studying by 9:00. That means you’re fairly certain but not positive. WORD FAMILYpretty: prettied, prettier, prettiest, prettily, prettiness, prettyly+/prettiness: prettinesses USAGE EXAMPLES“I thought it was just a bruise - a pretty good bruise,” White said. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) “Meetings with no answers. That pretty much says it all.” Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) “It’s a pretty consistent group, so there’s a community here, which is a bit different than some of the big gyms,” said Heather, 30. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing pretty girl pretty song pretty room Syn beautiful delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration 2adv to a moderately sufficient extent or degree 2pretty big pretty bad Syn|Ant fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, somewhat immoderately, unreasonably to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation adj (used ironically) unexpectedly bad a pretty mess a pretty kettle of fish Syn bad having undesirable or negative qualities |
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