pretty vs terrible

pretty

adj
  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

  • 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. 

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 

terrible

adj
  • Unpleasant; disagreeable. 

  • Intense; extreme in degree or extent. 

  • Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome 

  • Formidable, powerful. 

  • Very bad; lousy. 

adv
  • In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully. 

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