prettier adj. 较美丽
- Ellen said to herself that Diana was prettier than Kate.
艾伦暗想戴安娜比凯特长得漂亮。 - She is pretty, you are prettier.
她好看,你更好看。
Pretty \Pret"ty\, a. [Compar. {Prettier}; superl. {Prettiest}.]
[OE. prati, AS. pr[ae]ttig, pr[ae]tig, crafty, sly, akin to
pr[ae]t, pr[ae]tt, deceit, trickery, Icel. prettugr tricky,
prettr a trick; probably fr. Latin, perhaps through Celtic;
cf. W. praith act, deed, practice, LL. practica execution,
practice, plot. See {Practice}.]
1. Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not
striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form
a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or
elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not
grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a
pretty flower; a pretty poem.
This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
Ran on the greensward. --Shak.
2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty
fortune. ``Wavering a pretty while.'' --Evelyn.
3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the
world. --Spectator.
4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a
pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant. [Scot.]
[He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not
handsome. --Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: Elegant; neat; fine. See {Handsome}.
- Deer Valley is much prettier, with a preponderence of evergreens and far fewer aspens.
- The dummy was prettier," he said.
- Nothing could be prettier, more fleet or more featly done.
- But it is prettier, for one thing, with great round heads of starlike pinkish-lavender flowers that are sweetly fragrant besides.
- Besides, "The Two Jakes" is prettier than most pictures being produced these days, and more intelligent.
- In person, with her shaggy auburn hair swept off her face and only a smidge of stomach pooching out over her form-fitting jeans, the 46-year-old looks much prettier, and much younger, than in her videos.
- "It's not Paris, but it's a lot prettier that it was two months ago," said Richard Gilbert, an American Embassy spokesman.
- So far, he says, he has found "no prettier girl" than himself.