Usually means: Almost entirely but not completely.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretty much: Merriam-Webster
  2. pretty much: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pretty much: Vocabulary.com
  4. pretty-much: Wordnik
  5. pretty much: Wiktionary
  6. pretty much: Dictionary.com
  7. pretty much: Rhymezone
  8. pretty much: FreeDictionary.org
  9. pretty much: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. pretty much: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretty much: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretty much: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretty much: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pretty much)

▸ adverb:  Almost completely; very nearly; mostly; more or less; basically.

Similar:
practically, basically, pretty well, just about, more or less, well-nigh, 99 percent, about, sort of, nearly, more...

Opposite:
nearly nothing, almost none, hardly any, scarcely any, negligible

Types:
very, extremely, really, quite, more...

Phrases:
Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything, Pretty Much Dead Already, pretty much the same, pretty much everything, pretty much only, more...

Adjectives:
borderline, close, near, nigh, approximate, half, virtual, about, handy, slight, how long

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Similar:
practically, basically, pretty well, just about, more or less, well-nigh, 99 percent, about, sort of, nearly, more...

Opposite:
nearly nothing, almost none, hardly any, scarcely any, negligible

Types:
very, extremely, really, quite, more...

Phrases:
Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything, Pretty Much Dead Already, pretty much the same, pretty much everything, pretty much only, more...

Adjectives:
borderline, close, near, nigh, approximate, half, virtual, about, handy, slight, how long



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