PRECIOUS meaning: Highly valued, loved, or cherished

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word precious:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

precious: Merriam-Webster.com
precious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
precious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
precious: Collins English Dictionary
precious: Vocabulary.com
Precious, precious: Wordnik
precious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Precious, precious: Wiktionary
precious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
precious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
precious: Infoplease Dictionary
Precious, precious: Dictionary.com
precious: Online Etymology Dictionary
precious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Precious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
precious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
precious: Rhymezone
precious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
precious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
precious: Free Dictionary
precious: Mnemonic Dictionary
Precious, precious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
precious: Dictionary/thesaurus
precious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Precious (Precious album), Precious (Pretenders song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Precious (Cubic U), Precious (album), Precious (disambiguation), Precious (single), Precious (song), precious: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

precious: Idioms
precious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

the precious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Of high value or worth.
▸ adjective:  Regarded with love or tenderness.
▸ adjective:  (derogatory) Treated with too much reverence.
▸ adjective:  (informal, followed by about) Extremely protective or strict (about something).
▸ adjective:  (informal, derogatory) Blasted; damned.
▸ adjective:  (derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.
▸ adjective:  (colloquial) Thorough; utter.
▸ noun:  Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
▸ adverb:  Very; an intensifier.
▸ noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a male or female nickname.
▸ noun:  A female given name from English.

Opposite:

cheap, worthless, trivial, common, disposable

Types:

diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, amethyst, topaz, pearl, garnet, turquoise, more...

Phrases:

precious stones, precious metals, precious little, precious metal, my precious, more...

Adjectives:

more, little, semi, right, full, non, dear, christ, godly

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