pretty much

Idioms  

1. Almost, nearly, approximately, as in Our homework was pretty much finished. This adverbial usage differs from the use of pretty for “considerable” (as in pretty penny). [c. 1800]

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Example Sentences

"Research about the Club World Cup showed us that the style is pretty much the same, but maybe the repetition is less often," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

And we had a small, intimate writers’ room where pretty much everyone was parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

He describes it as them “calling and having lots of little questions and points about pretty much everything that gets written about her.”

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

Last week, a report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found that we’re moving backward on the issue of nuclear proliferation in pretty much every way.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026

Next to nothing pretty much summed up our budget.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Related Words

• a little
• considerably
• fairly
• kind of
• moderately
• quite
• rather
• reasonably
• somewhat
• very