beautiful vs pretty

beautiful

noun
  • Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address. 

adj
  • Well executed. 

  • Good, admirable. 

  • Attractive and possessing beauty. 

  • Pleasant; clear. 

pretty

noun
  • A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person. 

  • Something that is pretty. 

adv
  • Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. 

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

adj
  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

  • Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. 

  • Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing. 

  • Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. 

  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

How often have the words beautiful and pretty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )