little vs pretty

little

adj
  • Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous. 

  • Operating on a small scale. 

  • Very young. 

  • Short in duration; brief. 

  • To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign. 

  • Younger. 

  • Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place. 

  • Having few members. 

  • Small in size. 

  • Insignificant, trivial. 

  • Used to belittle a person. 

noun
  • One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state. 

  • A small amount. 

  • A child; particularly an infant. 

  • A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big. 

  • The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role. 

pron
  • Not much; not a large amount. 

adv
  • Not at all. 

  • Not much. 

det
  • Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of). 

pretty

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

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

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

  • 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. 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

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

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

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