nice vs pretty

nice

adj
  • Of a person: friendly, attractive. 

  • Pleasant, satisfactory. 

  • Respectable; virtuous. 

  • Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. 

  • Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. 

  • Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly 

intj
  • Used to signify approval. 

  • Used to signify a job well done. 

noun
  • niceness. 

adv
  • Nicely. 

verb
  • To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. 

pretty

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

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

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

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

  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

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. 

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