Pretty good is not at good as good.
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Worse.
It would totally depend on my enthusiasm. More often, though, it means worse.
Worse: “Yeah, it’s pretty good. But…” <- Talking about a game or a movie
Better: “Whoa! This is pretty good!” <- Food!
It’s not just good, it’s good enough!
Pretty good is less than good.
it can mean “decent, better than I expected”
or
“good, but not exceptional or memorable”
Depends on tone.
Depends on how you say it and in which context.
Wow! Pretty good!
Vs
That was pretty good, but…
A shrug and a “pretty good” = acceptable, not worth complaining about.
A slow grin first or it being said loudly = better than good, great.
Although this depends on how emotive the speaker is.
if someone shrugs with pretty good
or shrugs with good
to me the former is still better than the latter.
I don’t see a way for pretty good to mean less than good
I think it depends on what expectations were.
You and your friends make a horror movie and it’s better than you thought: Hey, that’s pretty good.
Steven Spielberg makes a mediocre horror movie: It was pretty good.
pretty good is less good than good
I’m British
Therefore it ranges from “utter fucking shite but I’ll say it a different way” to “moderately utter bollocks but bearable” right up to “yeah it’s alright”
I think I use ‘pretty good’ to pretend I have an opinion about something, rather than it being a moral judgement:
How was the film? Pretty good vs.
How was the film? Good.I do the same. I don’t have an established opinion on everything, and it can take some time to form one, so if someone presses me for an answer to, say, “What did you think of that movie?” shortly after I’ve left the cinema, it’s always “pretty good.”
Better
I always thought pretty good was better than good. Honestly surprised to find out I may have been wrong my entire life.
Not necessarily worse, but more ambiguous than if I say something is good.
Yea for me “pretty good” is an estimate around good. Like using -ish. I don’t want to say it was good but it was around good.
