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.-moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.-affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.-mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.-stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.-in some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, i am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.