Sekirov Dictionary

precious

/ˈpɹɛʃ.əs/

adjective 8
adverb 1
noun 1
forms 4
phrases 1

adjective8

•
worth a great deal, often because there is little of it
- The crown had many precious gemstones. 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.
•
Regarded with love or tenderness.
- The way my partner looks at me is just so precious.
•
Treated with too much reverence.
- He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
Excessively complicated.
Contrived to be cute or charming.
•
(informal) Extremely protective or strict (about something).
- Writers are often very precious about their work.
(informal) Thorough; utter.
(informal) Blasted; damned.

adverb1

•
Very; an intensifier.
- There is precious little we can do.

noun1

•
Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
- “It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?” — 1937

forms

preciouses · more precious · most precious · preciousest

Phrases with precious

precious little
Almost nothing; hardly anything.

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