knockout vs pretty

knockout

adj
  • Amazing; gorgeous; beautiful. 

  • Rendering someone unconscious. 

  • Designating an organism in which a particular gene has been removed or deactivated. 

  • Causing elimination from a competition. 

noun
  • Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny. 

  • The deactivation of anything. 

  • The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO. 

  • A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman. 

  • The deactivation of a particular gene. 

  • A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round. 

  • A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal. 

  • A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated. 

  • An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print. 

  • A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball. 

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. 

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

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

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

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