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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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Preciously
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
adverb
7.
extremely; very: She wastes precious little time.
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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
EXPANDFr. précieuse, noun use of fem. of précieux, especially as lampooned in Molière's comedy "Les Précieuses ridicules" (1659).
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