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preedy

preedy is the pronunciation spelling of pretty.

Meaning of pretty

Adverb

pretty (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very.
    • They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, “Of Java Major”, in Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book...
  2. (dialectal) Prettily, in a pretty manner.
    • 'The boy sings pretty, don't he, Master Marner?'1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter X, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Preedy

Preedy

  1. A surname.

Forms of preedy

comparativemore preedy
superlativemost preedy

Questions about preedy

What does preedy mean?
Preedy means a surname.
What is preedy the pronunciation spelling of?
Preedy is the pronunciation spelling of pretty.
What part of speech is preedy?
Preedy is a proper noun.

Words near preedy in the dictionary

  1. preedit
  2. preedited
  3. preediting
  4. preedits
  5. preeducation
  6. preedy
  7. preeing
  8. preejection
  9. preejections
  10. preelect
  11. preelected

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preedy (page history and authors); Preedy (page history and authors); pretty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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