prettier
- 1Comparative of pretty.
The older photographs were prettier than anything taken with the new camera.
She thought the riverside village was prettier than the busy coastal resort.
Note
Two-syllable adjectives ending in unstressed -y take the -er ending, and the y turns to i in the process. The periphrastic more pretty sounds markedly unnatural beside it. The comparative carries every shade of pretty, not only the admiring one. Prettier can mean more superficially appealing, more cunning, or, in derogatory British use, more effeminate, so the context decides whether it praises.
prettier is a form of pretty
pretty, adjective: Pleasing to look at or listen to in a delicate or charming way, said of people, especially women and children, and of things such as faces, places or tunes. Full entry
- Spelling
- pretty → prettier: change y to i, add -er
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