Pretty and Right

Pretty

Pretty adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.

Usage example: their misalliance is as pretty an example of an ill-conceived marriage as you're likely to find

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Right and pretty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Right" instead an adjective "Pretty".

Nearby Words: prettily, prettied, prettying

Right adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.

Usage example: the right tool for the job

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Pretty and right are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pretty" instead an adjective "Right".

Nearby Words: righteous, rightful, righted, rightly, righting

purpose	pretty purpose	right purpose
nothing	pretty nothing	right nothing

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The fact that the detective finds the seed and the Black Swan in only the second chapter of the game is a pretty clear indicator that something's not quite right here.

Source: Videogame / Dark Parables
Snob doesn't notice that Luke is standing right next to him in Part 7... but given what he's wearing, he has a pretty good excuse.

Source: Web Video / To Boldly Flee
Of course, he's pretty good about getting the accent right, instead of just replacing Ls and Rs, still.

Source: Japanese Ranguage

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