{
    "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."
}