Precious

Adjective

 * 1) of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such
 * 2) * The crown had many precious gemstones
 * 3) * This building work needs site access, and tell the city council that I don't care about a few lorry tyre ruts across their precious grass verge.
 * 4) regarded with love or tenderness.
 * 5) * My precious daughter is to marry
 * 6)  treated with too much reverence.
 * 7) * He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
 * 8)  contrived to be cute or charming

Synonyms

 * saccharine, syrupy, twee

Related terms

 * appraise
 * appreciate
 * depreciate
 * praise
 * precious little
 * price

Noun

 * 1) someone (or something) who is loved; a darling
 * 2) * "It isn't fair, my precious to ask us what it's got in its nasty pockets" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Adverb

 * 1) used as an intensifier
 * There is precious little we can do.

Adverbs for Precious
unusually; adorably; remarkably; priceless- ly; unreasonably; incredibly; singularly; curiously; altogether; unbelievably; understandably; uncommonly; amazingly; fantastically; immensely; immeasurably; incalculably.

Thesaurus
Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, absolute, admired, adored, affected, alembicated, angel, arrant, artful, artificial, babe, baby, baby-doll, beloved, beyond price, buttercup, cherished, cherub, chichi, chick, chickabiddy, choice, choosy, classical, complete, consummate, costly, crass, darling, dear, dearly beloved, deary, decided, definitive, doll, downright, duck, duckling, effete, egregious, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, esteemed, euphemistic, euphuistic, exact, expensive, exquisite, fastidious, favorite, finicky, flagrant, formalistic, fussy, glaring, golden, good as gold, goody good-good, goody-goody, gross, hallowed, held dear, high-priced, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hyperelegant, idolized, inestimable, intolerable, invaluable, irreplaceable, la-di-da, lamb, lambkin, love, loved, lover, mannered, methodical, meticulous, mincing, namby-pamby, nice, of great price, orderly, ostentatious, out-and-out, outright, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, particular, pedantic, perfect, persnickety, pet, petkins, picky, popular, positive, precieuse, precieux, precious heart, precise, precisian, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic, pretentious, priceless, pricey, prized, profound, pronounced, proper, punctilious, puristic, rank, rare, recherche, regular, revered, rich, scrupulous, shattering, shocking, showy, simpering, snookums, sophisticated, squeamish, stark, stark-staring, studied, sugar, superlative, surpassing, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, treasured, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unmitigated, unnatural, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, utter, valuable, valued, venerable, venerated, well-beloved, well-liked, white-haired, worthy

Etymology
< precious: <  precios: <  pretiosus: < pretium:; see price.

Pronunciation




Adjective

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 * Chinese: 宝贵 (bǎoguì)
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 * Japanese: 大切な (たいせつな, taisetsuna)
 * Korean: 귀중한 (gwijunghan)
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 * Telugu: అమూల్యమైన (amoolyamaina)