pretty

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɪt.i/    美 /ˈpɹɪt.i/|[ˈpɹɪɾ.i]|/ˈpɜɹ.ti/|/ˈpɹʊt.i/|/ˈpɔɪ.ti/|/ˈpɹɪt.i/|[ˈpɹɪɾ.i]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
    — I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
  2. Something that is pretty.
    — We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.
动词 v.
  1. To make pretty; to beautify
    — He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children.
    — Having brought it to a close, he took his way to the Kursaal. The great German watering-place is one of the prettiest nooks in Europe, and of a summer evening in the gaming days, five-and-twenty years ago, it was one of the most brilliant scenes.
  2. Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing.
    — Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier.
  3. Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. derogatory,often
    — Damned by the Socialists as "traitors to the working class," its leaders were decried by Tories as "faceless peddlers of politics with a pretty little trinket for every taste."
  4. Effeminate. UK,derogatory,sometimes
  5. Cunning; clever, skilful.
    — In the end, however, it was a very pretty shot, right across the chasm; killed first fire, and the brute fell headlong into the brook […].
  6. Moderately large; considerable. dated
    — they flung all the goods in the house out at the windows into the street, or into the sea, as they supposed; thus they continued mad a pretty season […].
  7. Excellent, commendable, pleasing; fitting or proper (of actions, thoughts etc.). dated
    — Some people are surprised, I believe, that that the eldest was not [named after his father], but Isabella would have him named Henry, which I thought very pretty of her.
  8. Awkward, unpleasant, bad. ironic
    — "Nay, not I; it is a pretty thing to expect me to wash them; you may take them back again, and say, as Sally had them before, she may wash them now, for me; I am not going to be 'Jack at a pinch,' I can tell you."
  9. Matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.
副词 adv.
  1. Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. not-comparable
    — They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]
  2. Prettily, in a pretty manner. dialectal,not-comparable
    — 'The boy sings pretty, don't he, Master Marner?'

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词
ugly
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.
词源 2
From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.
词源 3
From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.
词源 4
From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty.
Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.
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