Like and Pretty

Like

Like adverb - To some degree or extent.
Usage example: the cat would curl up, tightly like, and just go to sleep

Pretty and like are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pretty" instead an adverb "Like".

Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

Pretty

Pretty adverb - To some degree or extent.
Usage example: we've had some pretty cold weather lately

Like and pretty are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Like" instead an adverb "Pretty".

Nearby Words: prettily, prettied, prettying

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

attitude like attitude pretty attitude
children like children pretty children
time like time pretty time
nothing like nothing pretty nothing
Other words: humans.

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / How to Train Your Dragon Names to Run Away from Really Fast: A name like Norbert the Nutjob is a pretty good tipoff to what the character's actually like.
  • Pretty much, if Emperor Crazypants didn't like you, or if he just felt like it, you were as good as dead.
    Source: Morton's Fork
  • Big "YES!" Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music" starts "Do you like good music (Yeah yeah)" and has the "yeah yeah" at the end of pretty much every line.
    Source: Big "YES!"
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