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Meaning 1

Pretty good> quite good / not bad

Context 1

“Aren’t you studying Chinese this year?”
“Yep”
“How’s it going?”
“Pretty good, I’m passing my tests easily so that’s good”

Meaning 2

(same as Meaning 1)

Context 2

“How’s your mum doing?”
“Pretty good actually, better than expected, she should be back to work this week.”
“That’s great!”

Meaning 3

Pretty = fairly / quite. > pretty + adjective EG. pretty tired, pretty hard, pretty big

Context 3

“I’m pretty tired after that painting, don’t think we need to go jogging today!”

“The test is pretty hard, but you’ll be ok”

“You should see our new house, it looks small, but it’s actually pretty big inside”