noun
definition
Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
adjective
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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.
definition
Regarded with love or tenderness.
example
My precious daughter is to marry.
definition
Treated with too much reverence.
example
He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
definition
Contrived to be cute or charming.
adverb
definition
Very; an intensifier.
example
There is precious little we can do.
Examples of precious in a Sentence
Family is family, and you know how precious that is to me.
Her eyes lingered on Ashley's precious beads.
She managed to hurt everyone around her, even her precious Gabriel.
His thoughts wandered to Billy Langstrom's love-widow Melissa, now absent even those precious two commodities with which to face the world.
The most precious, the most wonderful of His gifts was still mine.
It was rumored in Hell that Darkyn was trying to get your precious Katie.
It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors.
One of them is the precious science of patience, which teaches us that we should take our education as we would take a walk in the country, leisurely, our minds hospitably open to impressions of every sort.
Other precious stones, including the sapphire, emerald, oriental emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, garnet, chrysolite, topaz, cairngorm, onyx, zircon, etc., have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and river gravels in numerous localities throughout the states.
Dagobert had at first consented to the dying Godfrey's wish that Baldwin should be his successor; but when Godfrey died he saw an opportunity too precious to be missed, and opposed Baldwin, counting on the support of Bohemund, to whom he sent an appeal for assistance.
I can hardly wait for June to come I am so eager to speak to her and to my precious little sister.
The regiment was also a home, and as unalterably dear and precious as his parents' house.
But much precious time had been lost, and even then the army was not ready.
Closing her eyes for a few precious moments, she breathed deeply and let her breath out in a long, relaxing sigh.
Even with her precious whiskey, she shouldn't feel like she did.
The walls and ceiling glittered with gold and precious gems.
You're too precious to me to worry.
Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great delight.
What many children think of with dread, as a painful plodding through grammar, hard sums and harder definitions, is to-day one of my most precious memories.
By 1882 they had produced $60,000,000 of precious metals.
An attempt by Depretis to recompose the Cairoli ministry proved fruitless, and after eleven precious days had been lost, King Humbert was obliged, on the i9th of April 1881, to refuse Cairolis resignation.
He gripped the pouch with its precious cargo.
He referred to the One Ring as his precious.
Much that I hold sweetest, much that I hold most precious, I owe to her.
It is believed by many critics that they were intended for the guidance of Aurelius's son, Commodus (q.v.); at all events they are generally considered as one of the most precious of the legacies of antiquity.
Really are is precious grist for want to make plays.
Well she truly is a very precious jewel, or at least to us.
There isn't anything precious about this situation with Dulce.
Or I'll unleash my vamps on your precious Guardians.
This method also hearkens back nicely to the way ancient healers would sip the dewdrops of flowers to cull their precious benefits.
Along its dark aisles innumerable little shops sold everything imaginable, from matches to precious stones.
For if you believe in His precious lifeblood, You'll learn the wonder of His amazing grace.
There's a nod too to They Might Be Giants, especially on ' Precious Metals ', which some might find off-putting.
The High Lady of the Hollow Hill is seeking to trap a thief who has stolen her most precious possession.
It seemed too precious an offering for any degree of publicity.
The space we have around us for our own personal sanctity is precious.
I thought how strange it was that such precious seeds of truth and wisdom should have fallen among the tares of ignorance and corruption.
You only have one life, and it's precious.
While it is still wonderfully fulfilling to keep a spiral bound diary at the bedside to record life's most precious of moments, online journaling definitely has its advantages.
In 438-439 she made an ostentatious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, whence she brought back several precious relics; during her stay at Antioch she harangued the senate in Hellenic style and distributed funds for the repair of its buildings.
The want of stone in Babylonia made every pebble precious and led to a high perfection in the art of gem-cutting.
But much time had been wasted and many precious opportunities lost.
As society becomes more affluent in cash terms, time becomes more precious.
People are still being removed without many of their precious belongings.
Here was her precious son being whisked out of her protective bosom into an unknown arch enemy... .
Perhaps girls take your precious bodily fluids or something.
It's large practice size make it perfect to store every precious keepsake.
The common opal is often opaque and displays very little iridescence, where as the precious opal has many flashes of color.
They will chew furniture and break your precious ornaments.
The terrain remained hard, fast and slippery with precious few places to safely overtake on the curving layout.