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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɪt.i/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈpɹɪt.i/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˈpɹɪɾ.i]
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• US, dialectal: /ˈpɜɹ.ti/
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• US, rare: /ˈpɹʊt.i/
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• US, dated, humorous: /ˈpɔɪ.ti/
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• Australian: /ˈpɹɪt.i/
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• Australian: [ˈpɹɪɾ.i]
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• New-Zealand: /ˈpɹət.i/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈpɹə̞ɾ.i]
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• India: /ˈprɪʈ.i/
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• India: [pɾɪʈ(ː)iˑ]
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• rhymes with -ɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: P R IH1 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattug, from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) + -y. Doublet of pratty. Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), Low German prettig (“funny”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the semantic development, compare canny, clever, cute.

From Sanskrit प्रीति (prīti).

211 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: nätti — cunning, clever, skilful
• Spanish: listo — cunning, clever, skilful
• Albanian: i bukur — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Western Apache: ba’olníí — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Arabic: جَمِيل (jamīl) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Arabic: لَطِيف (laṭīf) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Armenian: սիրուն (sirun) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Asturian: guapu — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Asturian: preciosu — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Atayal: betunux — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Azerbaijani: göyçək — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Basque: polit — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Belarusian: прыго́жы (pryhóžy) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Bulgarian: хубав (hubav) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Bulgarian: привлекателен (privlekatelen) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Burmese: လှ (hla.) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Catalan: bonic — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Chichewa: wokongola — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Chinese Cantonese: 靚 /靓 (leng3) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Chinese: 媠 (zh-min-nan) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Chinese Mandarin: 漂亮 (piàoliang) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Chinese Mandarin: 秀麗 /秀丽 (xiùlì) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Chinese Mandarin: 標緻 /标致 (biāozhi) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Chinese Mandarin: 好看 (hǎokàn) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Teochew: 雅 (ngia2) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Czech: hezký — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Dutch: mooi — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Esperanto: bela — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Esperanto: beleta — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Estonian: ilus — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Finnish: sievä — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Finnish: viehättävä — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• French: joli — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Georgian: სანდომიანი (sandomiani) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• German: anmutig — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• German: attraktiv — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• German: charmant — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• German: hübsch — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• German: nett — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• German: niedlich — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• German: schön — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Greek: χαριτωμένος (charitoménos) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Hebrew: יָפֶה (yafé) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Hebrew: יָפָה (yafá) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Hindi: सुंदर (sundar) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Hindi: ख़ूबसूरत (xūbsūrat) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Hungarian: csinos — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Ido: bela — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Ido: beleta — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Ido: jolia — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Igbo: imma — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Indonesian: cantik — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Irish: deas — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Italian: grazioso — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Italian: carino — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Japanese: 綺麗な (kirei-na) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Japanese: プリティ (puriti) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Japanese: 可愛い (kawaii) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Kannada: ಸುಂದರ (sundara) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Kapampangan: malagu — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Kapampangan: rikit — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Kapampangan: malinang — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Khmer: ល្អ (l’ɑɑ) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Korean: 예쁜 (yeppeun) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Korean: 예쁘다 (yeppeuda) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Korean: 아름답다 (areumdapda) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Lao: ງາມ (ngām) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Latin: pulcher — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Latin: scitulus — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Latvian: glīts — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Latvian: skaists — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Lithuanian: gražus — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Louisiana Creole: bèl — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Louisiana Creole: bo — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Louisiana Creole: joli — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Louisiana Creole: vayan — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Luxembourgish: flott — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Malay: cantik — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Malay: jelita — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Maltese: sabiħ — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Marathi: सुंदर (sundar) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Mirandese: guapo — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Mirandese: pimpon — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Mirandese: galano — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Mirandese: galan — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Norwegian: pen — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Norwegian: vakker — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Paiwan: samiyan — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Persian: قشنگ (qašang) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Persian: زیبا (zibâ) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Persian: خوشگل (xošgel) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Plautdietsch: schmock — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Polish: ładny — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Portuguese: bonito — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Quechua: sumag — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Quechua: şumag — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Romanian: drăguț — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Romanian: drăguță — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Russian: хоро́шенький (xoróšenʹkij) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Russian: ми́лый (mílyj) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Russian: милови́дный (milovídnyj) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Russian: ми́ленький (mílenʹkij) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Russian: привлека́тельный (privlekátelʹnyj) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Russian: симпати́чный (simpatíčnyj) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Scots: bonny — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Scottish Gaelic: bòidheach — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Scottish Gaelic: brèagha — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Scottish Gaelic: grinn — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Scottish Gaelic: maiseach — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Slovene: lep — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Spanish: guapo — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Spanish: bonito — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Swedish: vacker — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Swedish: fin — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Swedish: skön — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Swedish: snygg — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Swedish: söt — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Tagalog: maganda — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Telugu: అందమైన (andamaina) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Thai: น่ารัก (nâa-rák) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Thai: สวย (sǔai) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Tibetan: སྙིང་རྗེ་པོ (snying rje po) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Turkish: güzel — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Ottoman Turkish: كوزل (güzel, gözel) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Ukrainian: га́рний (hárnyj) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Ukrainian: гарненький (harnenʹkyj) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Ukrainian: миленький (mylenʹkyj) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Urdu: خوبصورت (xūbsūrat) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Urdu: سندر (sundar) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Vietnamese: xinh xắn — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Vietnamese: xinh — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Volapük: plitülik — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Yiddish: שיין (sheyn) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Yiddish: פֿײַן (fayn) — especially of women and children: pleasant, attractive
• Bulgarian: красив (krasiv) — of objects: nice-looking
• Catalan: bonic — of objects: nice-looking
• Maore Comorian: -zuri — of objects: nice-looking
• Finnish: sievä — of objects: nice-looking
• Finnish: viehättävä — of objects: nice-looking
• French: joli — of objects: nice-looking
• Greek: όμορφος (ómorfos) — of objects: nice-looking
• Hindi: मनोरम (manoram) — of objects: nice-looking
• Italian: carino — of objects: nice-looking
• Kapampangan: masanting — of objects: nice-looking
• Khmer: ល្អ (l’ɑɑ) — of objects: nice-looking
• Latvian: glīts — of objects: nice-looking
• Latvian: skaists — of objects: nice-looking
• Mirandese: guapo — of objects: nice-looking
• Persian: قشنگ (qašang) — of objects: nice-looking
• Persian: زیبا (zibâ) — of objects: nice-looking
• Persian: خوشگل (xošgel) — of objects: nice-looking
• Plautdietsch: schmock — of objects: nice-looking
• Portuguese: bonito — of objects: nice-looking
• Portuguese: belo — of objects: nice-looking
• Scottish Gaelic: snog — of objects: nice-looking
• Scottish Gaelic: brèagha — of objects: nice-looking
• Scottish Gaelic: lurach — of objects: nice-looking
• Scottish Gaelic: maiseach — of objects: nice-looking
• Spanish: bonito — of objects: nice-looking
• Ottoman Turkish: كوزل (güzel, gözel) — of objects: nice-looking
• Volapük: jönik — of objects: nice-looking
• Finnish: sievä — only superficially attractive
• Ido: beleta — only superficially attractive
• Khmer: ល្អ (l’ɑɑ) — only superficially attractive
• Portuguese: bonitinho — only superficially attractive
• Bulgarian: значителен (značitelen) — dated: moderately large
• Finnish: melkoinen — dated: moderately large
• Finnish: kiva — dated: excellent, pleasing
• Finnish: melkoinen — ironic: awkward, unpleasant
• Finnish: aikamoinen — ironic: awkward, unpleasant
• Bulgarian: доста (dosta) — somewhat
• Catalan: força — somewhat
• Chinese Mandarin: 挺 (tǐng) — somewhat
• Dutch: tamelijk — somewhat
• Dutch: nogal — somewhat
• Dutch: aardig — somewhat
• Esperanto: iomete — somewhat
• Esperanto: sufiĉe — somewhat
• Finnish: aika — somewhat
• Finnish: melko — somewhat
• Finnish: ihan — somewhat
• Finnish: varsin — somewhat
• Finnish: sangen — somewhat
• French: assez — somewhat
• French: pas mal — somewhat
• French: plutôt — somewhat
• German: ziemlich — somewhat
• German: leidlich — somewhat
• German: einigermaßen — somewhat
• Italian: piuttosto — somewhat
• Italian: abbastanza — somewhat
• Italian: tutto sommato — somewhat
• Lithuanian: pakankamai — somewhat
• Macedonian: прилично (prilično) — somewhat
• Macedonian: доста (dosta) — somewhat
• Polish: całkiem — somewhat
• Portuguese: meio — somewhat
• Portuguese: bem — somewhat
• Portuguese: bastante — somewhat
• Romanian: cam — somewhat
• Romanian: destul de — somewhat
• Russian: дово́льно (dovólʹno) — somewhat
• Russian: вполне́ (vpolné) — somewhat
• Russian: доста́точно (dostátočno) — somewhat
• Spanish: bastante — somewhat
• Spanish: bien — somewhat
• Swedish: rätt — somewhat
• Swedish: ganska — somewhat
• Thai: ค่อนข้าง (kɔ̂n-kâang) — somewhat
• Vietnamese: khá — somewhat
• Welsh: go — somewhat