precious
Of high value or worth.
Example
“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.”
Other meanings
Regarded with love or tenderness.
“The way my partner looks at me is just so precious.”
Excessively complicated.
Related words
- overprecious
- unprecious
- eight-precious
- non-precious
- precious coral
- semi-precious
- nonprecious
- Precious Blood
- precious metal
- precious stone
- preciously
- preciousness
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "pretiōsus" (of great value, costly, dear, precious).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “precious” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.