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prettyprint

prettyprint is the alternative form 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

Forms of prettyprint

third-person singular presentprettyprints
present participleprettyprinting
past participleprettyprinted
pastprettyprinted

Questions about prettyprint

What is prettyprint the alternative form of?
Prettyprint is the alternative form of pretty-print.

Words near prettyprint in the dictionary

  1. prettyish
  2. prettyism
  3. prettyisms
  4. Prettyman
  5. Prettymans
  6. prettyprint
  7. prettyprinted
  8. prettyprinter
  9. prettyprinters
  10. prettyprinting
  11. prettyprints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prettyprint (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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