Chiefly poetic. Of a woman or child: graceful and elegant in manners or appearance. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

Of a person, esp. a woman or child: attractive and pleasing in appearance; good-looking, esp. in a delicate or diminutive way.

variant of gent, adj. n.1adv. Obsolete.

Pretty.

Pretty, handsome. Obsolete as English.

Suitable for or characteristic of a genteel person; dainty, pretty, graceful.

Fairly pretty or attractive.

Sweetly pretty or charming, ‘sweet’. affected.

= pretty, adj.

Pretty.

= pretty, adj. Also as n.: = pretty, n.

Pretty; good; nice.

Of a person, animal, etc.: dear, darling; lovable, sweet, cute. Also occasionally of things: charming, pretty.

(originally U.S. colloquial and Schoolboy slang.) Used of things in same way as cunning, adj. 6. Now in general colloquial use, applied to people as…