pretty well

idiom

informal
: not completely but mostly
I'm pretty well fed up with him.

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Iti’s safe to say that the judges did pretty well on the guesses here. Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 2 Apr. 2025 Manchester City have normally fared pretty well without Erling Haaland, but there is nothing normal about their current situation. Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025 Rising up the list is Con Mum, a True Crime story, and those always tend to do pretty well. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 Nor does a loss mean that all is lost; the Red Sox were beaten in Game 1 of 162 in 2004, 2007, and 2018, and those seasons turned out pretty well. Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pretty well

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“Pretty well.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pretty%20well. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.

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