| barely | | |
| adv. | 1. barely, hardly, just, scarce, scarcely | only a very short time before.; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave" |
| adv. | 2. barely, scantily | in a sparse or scanty way.; "a barely furnished room" |
| hardly | | |
| adv. | 1. hardly, scarcely | almost not.; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" |
| pretty | | |
| adj. | 1. pretty | pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing.; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room" |
| ~ beautiful | delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration.; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party" |
| adj. | 2. pretty | (used ironically) unexpectedly bad.; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish" |
| ~ irony | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs. |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adv. | 3. fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat | to a moderately sufficient extent or degree.; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" |
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