which is better " pretty good" or "very good"?
and what is "pretty much"?
doesn't pretty mean "cute"?
which is better " pretty good" or "very good"?
and what is "pretty much"?
doesn't pretty mean "cute"?
Note that for speakers of BrE, pretty' can, with the right intonation, mean 'very'.
Britsh understatement can sometimes surprise speakers of AmE. Some of my American trainees were very disappointed if I told them that their work was 'not bad' or 'pretty good'. Sometimes when I said that, they would ask, "What was wrong with it?". They had not recognised the praise in my words.
pretty adverb
1 : to some degree or extent but not very or extremely : fairly
▪ The house was pretty [=moderately, rather] big.
▪ It's pretty cold outside.
▪ “Did you put the keys on the table?” “I'm pretty sure I did.”
▪ The teams are pretty equally matched.
▪ The work is pretty hard.
▪ I have to leave pretty soon.
▪ The movie was pretty good but not great.
▪ (US) I'm pretty near/nearly done. [=I'm almost done]
2 : to a great degree or extent : very
▪ His injury was pretty bad. [=his injury was bad]
▪ We got pretty [=quite] close.
▪ They've accomplished some pretty amazing things.
▪ She was driving pretty fast.
NOT A TEACHER
Martha: It was great./ very good./ fantastic./ really good
("real" good in popular English)/ super.