What's the difference between cute and pretty?

Cute


Definition:

  • (a.) Clever; sharp; shrewd; ingenious; cunning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
  • (2) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (3) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
  • (4) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (5) When he smiles, he looks as cute and gummy as a newborn.
  • (6) And we didn’t want a bloody female one – at least the last guy was cute.
  • (7) You're so cute, look at you in your little jumper!"
  • (8) Our compilation of near misses on the road may be a little hair-raising but, as a bonus, we offer a lucky cyclist who is hit by a car but lands on a mattress There is no shortage of cute pets this week, with a cat who is into escapology and a dog who loves rolling on the bed when he thinks his owner isn't around .
  • (9) Does appreciation for cuteness come naturally, or does it reveal something about our society?
  • (10) Another great feature of the panda, at least as far as Chairman Mao Zedong and his followers were concerned, was that the rest of the world, particularly the west, had become obsessed by its excruciatingly cute looks and behaviour.
  • (11) Laurinda runs Casa do Norte (from £30 a night) – a cute, romantic cottage to kick back in – and manages a handful of other turismos rurales.
  • (12) Lorenz’s paper is the blueprint of cute studies, but it did not produce a positive reaction among the scientific community.
  • (13) Despite their cute appearance, the animals have been known to bite the fingers off of tourists who have gone into the cages .
  • (14) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
  • (15) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (16) The beach is half a block a way, and you even get a cute, hand-drawn map to guide you around the sand-street town.
  • (17) People genuinely like them because they're funny, interesting, cute or just generally interesting.
  • (18) We're in a time where it is cute to be provocative and alternative and distinct.
  • (19) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
  • (20) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .

Pretty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.
  • (superl.) Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
  • (superl.) Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
  • (superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
  • (superl.) Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.
  • (adv.) In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
  • (2) Not making a sound for 24 hours pretty nearly killed me.
  • (3) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
  • (4) It may unsettle Exxon Mobil a little but they are pretty experienced now and I don’t think they would derail anything,” she said.
  • (5) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
  • (6) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
  • (7) We’ve got a lot of work to do but I’m feeling pretty confident.
  • (8) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (9) No one condones what happened in the 70s, but I think this is pretty appalling."
  • (10) Which is good news for anyone who likes this kind of thing (which is, let's face it, pretty much everyone.
  • (11) Woodall added: “Pretty much everything [is a potential source for what we found].
  • (12) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
  • (13) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
  • (14) She said the UK law on assisted suicide infringed Pretty's human rights, under article two of the European convention – the right to life.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Terms and Conditions May Apply – trailer It’s pretty simple, really.
  • (16) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
  • (17) Chelsea might recover under similar circumstances, but I reckon they need a pretty big overhaul.
  • (18) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
  • (19) "I have always been of the view that it is a false dichotomy, and one that is pretty much built-in by our education system unfortunately," he said this weekend.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.