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prettyish

prettyish adjective: somewhat pretty.

Adjective

prettyish (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat pretty.
    • [A]nd then the nervously grinning girl behind, plump, prettyish, dumb, and then the greetings.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 570

Origin of prettyish

From pretty + -ish.

Questions about prettyish

What does prettyish mean?
Prettyish means somewhat pretty.
What part of speech is prettyish?
Prettyish is an adjective.

Words near prettyish in the dictionary

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

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