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pretty-printing

pretty-printing is the present participle and gerund of pretty-print.

Meaning of pretty-print

Verb

pretty-print (third-person singular simple present pretty-prints, present participle pretty-printing, simple past and past participle pretty-printed)

  1. (transitive) To display code in a pretty fashion, matching commonly accepted principles of formatting and syntax, for the sake of readability.
    Synonyms:
    beautify, prettify
    Antonyms:
    minify, uglify

Questions about pretty-printing

What is pretty-printing the present participle and gerund of?
Pretty-printing is the present participle and gerund of pretty-print.

Words near pretty-printing in the dictionary

  1. pretty-pretty
  2. pretty-print
  3. pretty-printed
  4. pretty-printer
  5. pretty-printers
  6. pretty-printing
  7. pretty-prints
  8. prettying
  9. prettying up
  10. prettyish
  11. prettyism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretty-printing (page history and authors); pretty-print (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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