adverb, informal, almost, very nearly (“pretty” COD)
“My mother, she could milk pretty well two cows for one that Dad would milk, ’cause she was really fast.”
“My father and mother were on a farm, which everyone was pretty well at that time.”
“You can pretty well tell when people come through the door at the Information Centre if they’re American or Canadian, but I’m not sure just why. There definitely is a difference.”
“Mother used to can and jar, and we had the potato bins, and we were pretty well self-sufficient.”
“Growing up on the farm, we always had a team of horses pretty well, eh? And I was the one that got to drive them most of the time.”
Words of Wolfe Island 