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prettying

prettying is the present participle and gerund of pretty.

Meaning of pretty

Verb

pretty (third-person singular simple present pretties, present participle prettying, simple past and past participle prettied)

  1. To make pretty; to beautify
    • He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat.2007, Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home, →ISBN, page 29

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Phrases with prettying

Questions about prettying

What is prettying the present participle and gerund of?
Prettying is the present participle and gerund of pretty.

Words near prettying in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prettying (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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