precious
Use Precious in a sentence
əs adjective
1.
of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
2.
highly esteemed for some spiritual, nonmaterial, or moral quality: precious memories.
3.
dear; beloved: a precious child.
4.
affectedly or excessively delicate, refined, or nice: precious manners.
5.
flagrant; gross: a precious fool.
noun
6.
a dearly beloved person; darling.
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
adverb
7.
extremely; very: She wastes precious little time.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | beloved; dear; cherished |
| 2. | very costly or valuable |
| 3. | held in high esteem, esp in moral or spiritual matters |
| 4. | very fastidious or affected, as in speech, manners, etc |
| 5. | informal worthless: you and your precious ideas! |
| —adv | |
| 6. | informal (intensifier): there's precious little left |
| [C13: from Old French precios, from Latin pretiōsus valuable, from pretium price, value] | |
| 'preciously | |
| —adv | |
| 'preciousness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
precious
late 13c., from O.Fr. precios (11c., Fr. précieux), from L. pretiosus "costly, valuable," from pretium "value, worth, price" (see price). Meaning "over-refined" first recorded c.1395. Precieuse "a woman aiming at refined delicacy of language and taste" (1727) is from
Fr. précieuse, noun use of fem. of précieux, especially as lampooned in Molière's comedy "Les Précieuses ridicules" (1659).
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Example sentences
In addition, they will have to be cheaper: requiring the precious metal platinum would make them expensive.
We took a look at three of our favorite bag makers to see which model was best for porting precious payloads across campus.
All of those things are valued for their taste, and are precious because of it.
In fact, there seem never to have been any precious metals at the site.
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