pretty well

idiom

informal

: not completely but mostly

I'm pretty well fed up with him.

Examples of pretty well in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And there are some who have been thinking that pretty well describes opening a Mexican restaurant on Kavanaugh Boulevard in Little Rock’s Pulaski Heights, along a strip in which there are already two similar establishments (Heights Taco & Tamale and Baja Grill). —Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025

Therefore, my second-biggest concentration is in health-care stocks, because the health sector usually holds up pretty well in rough markets. —John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025

Things at the Shaw residence start out pretty well, to be honest. —Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 20 June 2025

He’s done pretty well for a guy who has never developed much plate discipline, with a .313 career OBP, never once drawing 50 walks in a season, making up for it with some very hard contact and above-average power, peaking back in 2021 with 33 homers. —Keith Law, New York Times, 18 June 2025

Rhymes for pretty well

• bagatelle
• caravel
• carousel
• carrousel
• citadel
• clientele
• commonweal
• decibel
• demoiselle
• fontanelle
• infidel
• isabel