pretty well

adv — 2 senses

pretty well

adv
1

Synonym of pretty much (“almost completely; very nearly”).

  • That scene earlier pretty well destroyed my chances of getting the job.
  • Well, Mike, if she's got nothing to say, this pretty well ends it here.2015, Gennifer Hutchison, “Bingo” (4:11 from the start), in Better Call Saul, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Detective Greg Sanders (Barry Shabaka Henley):
2

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pretty, well.

  • She plays the piano pretty well, having studied for six years.

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