exquisite vs pretty

exquisite

adj
  • Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional. 

  • Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse. 

  • Of special beauty or rare excellence. 

  • Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious. 

  • Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense. 

noun
  • Fop, dandy. 

pretty

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

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

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

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

  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

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

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

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

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