Pretty crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Pretty” are JOLLY or DINKY, with 5 letters. Below are 10 answers from 3 to 10 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

BAD 3 letters · adjective

having undesirable or negative qualities “a bad report card”

JOLLY 5 letters · adverb

to certain extent or degree “jolly decent of him”

FAIRLY 6 letters · adverb

to certain extent or degree “he is fairly clever with computers”

SOMEWHAT 8 letters · adverb

to certain extent or degree

BEAUTIFUL 9 letters · adjective

delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration “a beautiful child”

REASONABLY 10 letters · adverb

to certain extent or degree “the shoes are priced reasonably”

Telling them apart

With 8 squares, SOMEWHAT, MIDDLING and PASSABLY all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: S → SOMEWHAT · M → MIDDLING · P → PASSABLY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “pretties” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “pretty” means

• adjective: pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing (“pretty girl”)
• adjective: (used ironically) unexpectedly bad (“a pretty mess”)
• adverb: to certain extent or degree (“pretty big”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as PRETTY, and words whose definition is PRETTY. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.