pretty much

pretty much (not comparable)

1. Almost completely; very nearly; mostly; more or less; basically.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 42:

     That's my life pretty much, down to such times as I got shipped off, arter Pip stood my friend.

   • 1912, G. K. Chesterton, “The Separatist and Sacred Things,”, in A Miscellany of Men:

     Poets are pretty much the same everywhere in their poetry—and in their prose.

   • 2008 January 6, Ron Liddle, “Bring back British Rail, all is forgiven”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 16 July 2008:

     Pretty much all of the train operating companies have announced huge fare increases.

• Similar in meaning to more or less; however, pretty much sometimes implies a higher or more satisfactory degree of completeness.