(v. t.) To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
(v. i.) To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(2) It could have gone into beautifying those parts of Stratford where people live.
(3) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(4) People lauded its quality of life; he moved factories to the city's edges and beautified the centre.
(5) While their husbands and boyfriends get on with their serious, ball-based business, the Wags are getting bouffed and beautified.
(6) And I try, recognising the vernacular of the films in which I work, to have some degree of reality within the beautifying forces of that machine.
(7) Changes like this usually happen through wars and natural disasters.” The academic and activist Iskra Geshoska is describing a project called Skopje 2014 , a comprehensive plan to “beautify” the city centre of Macedonia’s capital.
(8) And he has insisted the country physically clean itself up, choosing Gandhi’s birthday to launch the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, enjoining his countrymen to sweep, tidy and beautify parks, streets and public places.
(9) For him war became an everyday experience of such rigour that he had little time to theorise about it, much less beautify it.
(10) Shoalstone began life as a natural rock pool and, over the years, it's been blasted out, levelled, painted, added to and beautified, mostly by volunteers.
(11) He said such women had "abandoned their basic duties such as housekeeping, bringing up children ... and replaced this by beautifying themselves and wantonness".
(12) To borrow his description of Autolycus (in The Winter’s Tale ), our national playwright was a “snapper-up of unconsidered trifles”, denounced in his own time as a plagiarist (“an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers”), a writer of genius keenly alert to an extraordinary mix of cadences, ideas and emotions.
(13) For some, the home has become this constantly made-over, beautified status symbol.
(14) The main activity at the jail is beautifying; sometimes it almost seems like the largest beauty parlour in Mexico.
(15) The dermatologist can better aid the patient with hair difficulties if he or she has an understanding of the formulation and effects of products designed to cleanse, beautify, and modify the hair.
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.