pretty much

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]

Example Sentences

Johnson and Harris took 59 wickets between them, pretty much bowling out England six times as a partnership.

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“He knows pretty much all the American photoplayers that are currently being restored,” says Otto, “because all of us have contacted him for one reason or another.”

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He is pretty much restricted to designated hitter and is approaching an age where offensive production might decline.

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Even his parents pretty much wrote him off.

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“All pens pretty much look like themselves,” he says.

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