pretty well
English
Adverb
- Synonym of pretty much (“almost completely; very nearly”).
- That scene earlier pretty well destroyed my chances of getting the job.
- 2015, Gennifer Hutchison, “Bingo” (4:11 from the start), in Better Call Saul, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Detective Greg Sanders (Barry Shabaka Henley):
- Well, Mike, if she's got nothing to say, this pretty well ends it here.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pretty, well.
- She plays the piano pretty well, having studied for six years.