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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "pretty",
"partOfSpeech": "adverb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to some extent; fairly",
"labels": "North American EnglishBritish EnglishBritish EnglishNorth American English",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The game was **pretty good**."
},
{
"text": "I'm **pretty sure** I'll be going."
},
{
"text": "It's pretty hard to explain."
},
{
"text": "I'm going to have to find a new apartment pretty soon."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "very",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "That performance was pretty impressive."
},
{
"text": "Things are looking pretty good!"
},
{
"text": "The idea sounds pretty cool."
},
{
"text": "We were pretty disappointed with the quality of the food."
},
{
"text": "It came at the end of a pretty miserable week."
},
{
"text": "Flying those planes was pretty hard work."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be in a good situation, especially when others are not",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "With profits at record levels, the company’s certainly sitting pretty this year."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "almost; almost completely",
"labels": "(informal)",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "One dog looks pretty much like another to me."
},
{
"text": "He goes out pretty well every night."
},
{
"text": "The first stage is pretty near finished."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈprɪti/",
"audio": "pr/pretty/pretty__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈprɪti/",
"audio": "pr/pretty/pretty__us_3.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English prættig; related to Middle Dutch pertich ‘brisk, clever’, obsolete Dutch prettig ‘humorous, sporty’, from a West Germanic base meaning ‘trick’. The sense development ‘deceitful, cunning, clever, skilful, admirable, pleasing, nice’ has parallels in adjectives such as canny, fine, nice, etc."
}