pretty

joli

Agréable à regarder, souvent avec une beauté douce ou délicate.

En anglais simple : Pleasant to look at, often in a gentle or delicate way.

• That is a pretty dress.
• The village looked pretty in the snow.
• She chose the prettiest flowers for the table.

Synonymes : attractive, lovely, beautiful

Contraires : ugly

Expressions courantes : pretty face, pretty dress, pretty flowers, pretty woman

assez, plutôt

Indique un degré assez élevé, sans forcément atteindre le maximum.

En anglais simple : To quite a large degree, though perhaps not completely.

• The test was pretty easy.
• I am pretty sure we have met before.
• She speaks English pretty well.

Comment l'utiliser : pretty + adjective/adverb (The instructions are pretty clear.)

Synonymes : quite, fairly, rather

Expressions courantes : pretty good, pretty sure, pretty well

très, vraiment

Indique qu’une qualité ou un état atteint un degré très élevé.

En anglais simple : To a very great degree.

• That noise was pretty awful.
• He was pretty furious when he saw the damage.
• You have done something pretty extraordinary.

Comment l'utiliser : pretty + adjective/adverb (That was pretty amazing.)

Synonymes : very, really, extremely

Expressions courantes : pretty amazing, pretty awful, pretty impressive

bibelot, jolie chose

Petit objet agréable à regarder, que l’on aime ou que l’on collectionne.

En anglais simple : An attractive object, especially a small one that someone likes or collects.

• She picked up a shiny pretty.
• He keeps his pretties in a glass box.
• Which little pretty caught your eye?

Synonymes : trinket, ornament

Expressions courantes : a pretty, little pretty