Bible Dictionaries
Pretty

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; - used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.

(2):

(superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.

(3):

(superl.) Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.

(4):

(superl.) Affectedly nice; foppish; - used in an ill sense.

(5):

(superl.) Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.

(6):

(adv.) In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; - less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pretty'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pretty.html. 1828.