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Meaning of "prettify" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRETTIFY

prettify  [ˈprɪtɪˌfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRETTIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prettify is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb prettify in English.

WHAT DOES PRETTIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prettify in the English dictionary

The definition of prettify in the dictionary is to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PRETTIFY

PRESENT

Present
I prettify
you prettify
he/she/it prettifies
we prettify
you prettify
they prettify
Present continuous
I am prettifying
you are prettifying
he/she/it is prettifying
we are prettifying
you are prettifying
they are prettifying
Present perfect
I have prettified
you have prettified
he/she/it has prettified
we have prettified
you have prettified
they have prettified
Present perfect continuous
I have been prettifying
you have been prettifying
he/she/it has been prettifying
we have been prettifying
you have been prettifying
they have been prettifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I prettified
you prettified
he/she/it prettified
we prettified
you prettified
they prettified
Past continuous
I was prettifying
you were prettifying
he/she/it was prettifying
we were prettifying
you were prettifying
they were prettifying
Past perfect
I had prettified
you had prettified
he/she/it had prettified
we had prettified
you had prettified
they had prettified
Past perfect continuous
I had been prettifying
you had been prettifying
he/she/it had been prettifying
we had been prettifying
you had been prettifying
they had been prettifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will prettify
you will prettify
he/she/it will prettify
we will prettify
you will prettify
they will prettify
Future continuous
I will be prettifying
you will be prettifying
he/she/it will be prettifying
we will be prettifying
you will be prettifying
they will be prettifying
Future perfect
I will have prettified
you will have prettified
he/she/it will have prettified
we will have prettified
you will have prettified
they will have prettified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been prettifying
you will have been prettifying
he/she/it will have been prettifying
we will have been prettifying
you will have been prettifying
they will have been prettifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would prettify
you would prettify
he/she/it would prettify
we would prettify
you would prettify
they would prettify
Conditional continuous
I would be prettifying
you would be prettifying
he/she/it would be prettifying
we would be prettifying
you would be prettifying
they would be prettifying
Conditional perfect
I would have prettify
you would have prettify
he/she/it would have prettify
we would have prettify
you would have prettify
they would have prettify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been prettifying
you would have been prettifying
he/she/it would have been prettifying
we would have been prettifying
you would have been prettifying
they would have been prettifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you prettify
we let´s prettify
you prettify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to prettify
Past participle
prettified
Present Participle
prettifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRETTIFY


beautify
ˈbjuːtɪˌfaɪ
certify
ˈsɜːtɪˌfaɪ
citify
ˈsɪtɪˌfaɪ
cityfy
ˈsɪtɪˌfaɪ
demystify
diːˈmɪstɪˌfaɪ
fortify
ˈfɔːtɪˌfaɪ
gratify
ˈɡrætɪˌfaɪ
identifier
aɪˈdɛntɪˌfaɪ
identify
aɪˈdɛntɪˌfaɪ
justify
ˈdʒʌstɪˌfaɪ
mattify
ˈmætɪˌfaɪ
mortify
ˈmɔːtɪˌfaɪ
notify
ˈnəʊtɪˌfaɪ
objectify
əbˈdʒɛktɪˌfaɪ
quantify
ˈkwɒntɪˌfaɪ
ratify
ˈrætɪˌfaɪ
rectify
ˈrɛktɪˌfaɪ
sanctify
ˈsæŋktɪˌfaɪ
stratify
ˈstrætɪˌfaɪ
testify
ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRETTIFY

pretreat
pretreatment
pretrim
prettied
prettier
pretties
prettiest
prettification
prettified
prettifier
prettifies
prettily
prettiness
pretty
pretty boy
pretty-pretty
prettyish
prettyism
pretype
pretzel

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRETTIFY

acetify
beatify
brutify
compactify
decertify
flintify
fructify
frutify
interstratify
left-justify
misidentify
moistify
mystify
overidentify
prenotify
presanctify
rejustify
right-justify
stultify
unsanctify

Synonyms and antonyms of prettify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRETTIFY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prettify» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of prettify

Translation of «prettify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRETTIFY

Find out the translation of prettify to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prettify from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prettify» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

美化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prettify
570 millions of speakers

English

prettify
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सँवारना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وتجميل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

приукрасить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prettify
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুন্দর করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

enjoliver
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prettify
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verschönern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

飾りたてる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

값 싸게 치장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prettify
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tô điểm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழகுபடுத்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आकर्षक बनवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güzelleştirmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

abbellire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

upiększać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прикрасити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prettify
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξωραϊσμένο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aardig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prettify
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prettify
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prettify

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRETTIFY»

The term «prettify» is regularly used and occupies the 75.676 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRETTIFY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prettify» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prettify» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prettify

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETTIFY»

Discover the use of prettify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prettify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
God Speaks the Pastafarian Quatrains
Hogs prettify mean glints. Gosh! Prettify malign nest. Prettify hogs malign nest. Prettify malign hogs sent. Isn't hogs mangle prettify. Prettify ton slashing gem. Prettify lots gnashing me. Prettify on naggish smelt. Legs prettify nights moan. Gleam ...
Jon Smith, 2008
2
Real World Haskell: Code You Can Believe In
We will call our generic pretty-printing module Prettify, so our code will go into a source file named Prettify.hs. Naming In our Prettify module, we will base our names on those used by several established Haskell pretty-printing libraries., which ...
Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, 2008
3
Getting Started with Beautiful Soup
You can take a look at the following references to get an overview: Formatted printing: The following method gives theformatted output: soup.prettify(): This method isusedto outputwith indentation and formatting Unformatted printing: These ...
Vineeth G. Nair, 2014
4
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g
Formatting. CSS. (prettify). When taking a barebones approach to branding Oracle BI and working with ... NetBeans IDE Formatting CSS (prettify) NQ_SESSION.SKIN and NQ_SESSION.STYLE session variables.
C. Screen, 2012
5
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
prettify . To make pretty, esp. if cheaply or pettily: to represent prettily: coll: 1850, Mrs Trollope, 'Your money to prettify your house'. pretty . This S.E. adj. has, since ca 1850, had a slightly coll tinge. 2. The adv. (C. 16–20) has been almost coll ...
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
6
Google Apps Hacks
Prettify. Your. document. with. Inline. styles. Invoke the awesome power of Cascading Style Sheets to add style to your Google Docs document. The lack of formatting options in Google Docs can be both blessing and curse. It's a blessing  ...
Philipp Lenssen, 2008
7
Political Economy of Socialist Realism
Bringing together the Soviet historical experience and Stalin-era art in novels, films, poems, songs, painting, photography, architecture and advertising, Dobrenko examines Stalinism's representational strategies and demonstrates how real ...
Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko, 2007
8
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
... ruse. prettify verb plans to prettify Main Street: beautify, make attractive, make pretty, spruce up, adorn, ornament, decorate, smarten (up); informal doll up, do up, give something a facelift, titivate. pretty adjective a pretty child: attractive, lovely, ...
‎2012
9
Death in Pozzuoli
'Replanted them?' said Marcia. 'Yes. Paestum was famous for its roses in Roman times. Twiceblooming roses' 'Oh. I guess there is always an historical reason, isn't there? I thought the rose garden was intended simply to prettify the place.
James Allan Evans, 2009
10
The Python Standard Library by Example
for i in xrange(3) ] top.extend(children) print prettify(top) When a list is given, the nodes in the list are added directly to the new parent. $ python ElementTree_extend.py <?xml version="1.0" ?> <top> <child num="0"/> <child num="1"/> <child ...
Doug Hellmann, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRETTIFY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prettify is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Welcome to Kenya President Obama, and Please Feel At Home
... some homes that means laying out the best crockery and cutlery, in Nairobi it means we don our 'Sunday Best' and prettify our surroundings. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
2
Chippy overturns deep fried Mars Bar banner ban
In a local authority bid to prettify the fishing village, an edict was issued to have the banner removed from the front of the building. But owner ... «Euro Weekly News, Jul 15»
3
Can We Save the Endangered Monarch Butterfly
... and we thought 'If we can draw attention to gardening habits that help (monarchs) and prettify our neighborhood at the same time, we should. «Pioneer News, Jul 15»
4
Best iPhone 6 cases and covers: 13 protective shells for your Apple …
Fortunately, there's a raft of cases available for your most valued gadget, not just to keep it safe and scratch-free, but to prettify it, and even ... «Digital Spy UK, Jul 15»
5
Barclays saga takes new twist with Rake's progress to Worldpay
... as the Chinese authorities have been trying to do for the past few weeks, is that people wonder what else you might be tempted to prettify. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
US and Iran: wheel and deal
For starters, the deal will embolden Iran, prettify America, and alienate Israel. It will phase out the Islamic Republic of Iran and phase in the ISIL ... «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Jul 15»
7
On Disney and animating democracy for kids
trying to prettify or sexualize her. Not ONCE does she bat her eyelashes! AND she plays hockey! Oh, Disney. You giant capitalist behemoth, ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
8
Pink Mist, Bristol Old Vic, review: 'it sends you reeling'
The relish in language doesn't prettify but dignifies these all-too-typical journeys into irreversible trauma of bright-eyed mates (Arthur, Taff, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
9
Let them eat wedding cake
I was not one of the 30 million-odd Facebook users to prettify my profile pic with the rainbow flag this past week when the US legalised gay ... «News24, Jul 15»
10
Clare Visited Sphinx, Sans Noguchi
... marrying Henry Luce and getting a nose job, Clare persuaded Noguchi to prettify his 1933 bust of her. The sculptor always denied doing this, ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»

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