precious
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Of high value or worth.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: dear, valuable, without price, estimable, valuable, worthy, worthly, prizable, treasurous, worth every penny, invaluable, precious, priceless, unpriced, unvaluable, without price, worth one's weight in gold
- 2.
Regarded with love or tenderness.
The way my partner looks at me is just so precious.
- 3.
(derogatory)(derogatory, antiphrastic) Treated with too much reverence.
He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
- 4.
(ironic)(writing, ironic) Excessively complicated.
- 5.
(informal)(informal, followed by about) Extremely protective or strict (about something).
Writers are often very precious about their work.
- 6.
(derogatory, informal)Blasted; damned.
Đồng nghĩa: confounded, ever-loving, raasclaat, 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blessed, blimming, blinking, bloody, blooming, confounded, consarned, cotton-picking, cowson, cursed, dadburn, dadgum, dagnabbed, damn, damnable, damned, dang, danged, darn, darned, dashed, deuced, doggone, dratted, effing, ever-loving, fecking, flaming, flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, fudging, fugging, furshlugginer, jiggered, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, goddarned, godforsaken, goldurn, gormed, goshdarn, goshdarned, hecking, holy, infernal, living, mollyfogging, motherfucking, pissing, plain, precious, raasclaat, ruddy, sniggered, sodding, stinking
- 7.
(derogatory)Contrived to be cute or charming.
Đồng nghĩa: saccharine, syrupy, twee
- 8.
(colloquial)Thorough; utter.
a precious rascal
Đồng nghĩa: absolute, perfect, wholesale, abject, frightful, absolute, arrant, categoric, categorical, complete, consummate, decided, downright, full, full-blown, full-bore, full-on, mere, outright, out-and-out, perfect, precious, proper, pure, stark, rank, regular, right, root and branch, sheer, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unattenuated, uncompromising, unconditional, unfettered, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, utter, wholesale
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
(not comparable)Very; an intensifier.
There is precious little we can do.
precious few pictures of him exist
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Middle English precious, Old French precios (valuable, costly, precious, beloved, also affected, finical), from Latin pretiōsus (of great value, costly, dear, precious), from pretium (value, price); see price.