Precious

Definition: Precious

Precious

Adjective

1. Characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for; "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted".

2. Of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones".

3. Obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms".

Adverb

1. (intensifier) extremely; "there is precious little time left".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Precious" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be precious", "having value".

Date "precious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Precious \Pre"cious\, adjective. [Old French precious, precius, precios, French pr['e]cieux, Latin pretiosus, from pretium price, worth, value. See Price.]. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Precious

Dearness

Adjective: dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly, precious; worth a Jew's eye, dear bought.

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Inactivity

Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

Inexpedience

Tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand.

Admirable, estimable; praiseworthy; (approve); pleasing; couleur de rose, precious, of great price; costly; (dear); worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye; priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye.

Jewelry

Noun: jewel, jewelry, jewellery; bijoutry; bijou, bijouterie; trinket;fine jewelry; costume jewelry, junk jewelry; gem, gemstone, precious stone.

Love

Loved; Verb: beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious, darling, pet, little; favorite, popular.

Money

Precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget.

Prediction

Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy.

Value

Precious (expensive).

Crosswords: Precious

Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Dr. Arroway will be spending her precious telescope time listening for uh listening for (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

So bright, so beautiful, our precious. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck (The Maltese Falcon; writing credit: John Huston)

Did you get your precious photos (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless (Precious Illusions; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

For your love, your precious love (Precious Love; performing artist: Bob Welch; writing credit: Bob Welch)

Show you you're everything that's precious to me (I Can Love You Like That; performing artist: All-4-One)

Exchanging all precious gifts ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

To keep your precious love (In the Still of the Nite (I'll Remember); performing artist: Boyz II Men)

Precious is the parrot who is trained by a clean tongue. (references; author: unknown)

The most precious thing we have is life. Yet it has absolutely no trade-in value. (references; author: unknown)

True friends are like diamonds: precious and rare. False friends are like autumn leaves: scattered everywhere. (references; author: unknown)

Friendship is a golden chain, the links are friends so dear; and like a rare and precious jewel, it's treasured more each year. (references; author: unknown)

Precious Jewels (1969)

Just Too Precious (1966)

Precious Pupp (1965)

The Precious Fan (1957)

One Precious Year (1933)

FOR YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE� (performing artist: Jerry Butler� )

YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE� (performing artist: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell� )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Synthetic, Reconstructed Precious and Semi-precious Stones in Turkey (reference)

• Precious Shipping Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Precious Metal Ores, Concentrates, Waste, and Scrap Export Supplies (reference)

• Precious Metal Jewelry in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• The World Market for Jewelry, Goldsmiths and Articles of Precious Metals: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Precious Moments Baby Bible For Catholics Artwork By Sam Butcher (reference)

• Simon and Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones (reference)

• God¿s Most Precious Jewels Are Crystallized Tears (reference)

• Precious Angels: A True Story of Two Slain Children and a Mother Convicted of Murder (Onyx True Crime, Je 853) (reference)

• 2000 Import and Export Market for Jewelry, Goldsmiths and Articles of Precious Metals in South Afric (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Japan Precious (reference)

• Precious Metals - Conference Proceedings (reference)

• Precious Metals - News & Review (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Precious Moments (reference)

• Precious Moments: Timmy's Gift (reference)

• Precious Moments: Who's Who at the Zoo? (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Precious [ENHANCED] (reference)

• Precious Lord: The Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Stroller - Precious Moments (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

U.S. Air Force aircrew personnel work to unload a C-17 "Globemaster III" aircraft's precious cargo of humanitarian earthquake relief supplies, after arriving at the international airport in Ahmedabad, India, on Feb. 3, 2001. Members of the 7th A.

Water is a precious resource that sustains irrigated agriculture across southern Idaho. Credit: Logan Berg.

Berhentilah Merokok Nyawa Itu Tinggi Nilainya : Quit Smoking Life is Precious. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A child's health is a precious as a work of art. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A most precious heritage -- use it wisely. Credit: Library of Congress.

The precious "spare". Credit: Library of Congress.

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant lunch wagon. At the left a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line. War prog. Credit: Library of Congress.

Water is precious in central Oregon and this irrigation flume comes a long way from the Deschutes River to help grow alfalfa. Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It seemed too precious an offering for any degree of publicity

The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know

No golden light had ever been so precious as the gloom of this dark forest

As to himself, the author knows not the new Paris, and writes with the old Paris before his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him.

A guitar is more precious.

No wonder that Alexander carried the Iliad with him on his expeditions in a precious casket

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in the stones, and good in every thing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

And although some of the mother's antibodies will be transmitted to the newborn via the placenta, the newborn will have precious little ability to fight off the attack because the immune system is immature. (references)

The ability to think, to feel, to interact with others, to share a sense of purpose, to work, to love, to experience gratification, to care for others, and to maintain self-responsibility are precious human attributes that elderly people strive to maintain. (references)

These multifaceted collaborative initiatives, which combine an accelerated search for causes, an assault on the effects of the disease, and vigorous efforts to prevent onset, will energize the fight against AD and bring us closer to the day when we will be able to prevent or even cure this terrible disease, which robs our older relatives and friends of their most precious faculty �" their minds. (references)

Business

The DMMR has located 1,273 precious metals sites and 1,171 non-precious metals sites in Saudi Arabia. (references)

Developed countries generally use the three-way converter (TWC), which uses the precious metals pt, pd, and rh as catalysts. (references)

But the drawbacks are that the activity of rare earth oxidation is lower than precious metals and the beginning temperature is higher. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Guinea also possesses one of the last high-grade iron ore deposits, as well as untapped reserves of gold, diamonds, and other gemstones and precious metals that are in the beginning stages of exploration. (references)

Russia

Oil, fuel and gas accounted for 54 percent of Russia's exports, followed by iron and steel, aluminum, precious metals and stones, and machinery/equipment. (references)

Mexico

Baja California has abundant reserves of metallic and non-metallic minerals, including precious metals, metals for industrial use and quarry products. (references)

Political Economy

HUNGARY

Although 96 percent of imports (in value terms) no longer require an import license, quota constraints apply to some 20 product groups, including cars, textiles, and precious metals (the quotas, however, are not actually reached in most of these areas). (references)

RUSSIA

The government maintains a monopoly on the sale of precious and several rare-earth metals, conducts centralized sales of diamonds, and conducts centralized purchases for export of military technology. (references)

BULGARIA

Licenses are required for a specific, limited list of goods including radioactive elements, rare and precious metals and stones, certain pharmaceutical products, and pesticides. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Precious metals and stones, excluding diamonds, can only be imported by commercial banks authorized by the Central Bank (Decree No. 93/4143, March 21, 1993). (references)

Switzerland

Big banks: The two big banks (United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) and the Credit Suisse Group) are universal banks engaged in all types of banking business -- acceptance of deposits, provision of credit facilities, mortgage loans, dealing in foreign exchange and precious metals, portfolio management, underwriting, etc. (references)

Spain

Metals: The Spanish Guarantee Bureau provides assay services and affixes its hallmark for all imported precious metals. (references)

Travel

Bulgaria

Upon entry into and departure from Bulgaria foreign nationals must make a written declaration of negotiable instruments, precious metals in excess of the normal amount for personal and family use, and currency of BGN 5,000 or the foreign currency equivalent. (references)

Sri Lanka

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS: Sri Lankan customs authorities may enforce strict regulations concerning temporary importation into or export from Sri Lanka of items such as firearms, antiquities, business equipment, obscene materials, currency, gems and precious metals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A precious stone

A precious stone

His precious fruit

Precious stone

Precious stone

Precious

To be precious

Expressions using "precious": a precious commodity ♦ article comprising various precious metals ♦ article of precious metal ♦ make precious ♦ precious as the apple of the eye ♦ precious coral ♦ precious expensive ♦ precious few ♦ precious fool ♦ precious little ♦ precious metal ♦ precious metals ♦ precious object ♦ precious opal ♦ precious rascal ♦ precious stone ♦ precious stones ♦ precious thing ♦ reconstructed precious stone ♦ rolled precious metal ♦ rough precious stone ♦ synthetic precious stone ♦ waste the precious hours. Additional references.

Beginning with "precious": precious-metal, precious-metals.

Ending with "precious": all-too-precious, non-precious, once-precious, semi-precious.

Containing "precious": semi-precious stone.

Albanian

tepër (beastly, confoundedly, damnably, dearly, excessively, extremely, frightfully, greatly, highly, most, overly, overmuch, overwhelmingly, parlous, passing, pathetically, so, too, too much, unduly, very), shumë i madh (colossal, cyclopean, exceeding, overgrown), shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, far and away, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), i vyer, i spitulluar (hip), i shtirë (affected, airy, camp, counterfeit, feigned, folksy, hollow, hypocritical), i dashur (affable, affected, affectionate, amiable, baby, beloved, caring, darling, dear, debonair, fond, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good natured, kind, kindly, love, pleasant, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, sweety, Truelove, Valentine, warm), i çmuar (rich, valuable, valued). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كريم (benign, big hearted, cream, custard, decent, generous, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, high minded, honorable, honourable, kind, kindly, lavish, liberal, noble, noble-minded, obliging, open handed, respectable, valuable, warm-hearted), ‏نفيس (costly, inestimable, invaluable, noble, oriental, priceless, recherche, valuable), ‏قيمة كبيرة, ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏عزيز (beloved, darling, dear), ‏ذو قيمة (cabinet, worth), ‏ثمين (invaluable, priceless), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съвсем (all, altogether, clean, clear, completely, directly, dooms, fairly, just, largely, most, plain, quite, real, regularly, simply, sopping, spang, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly, wide), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), скъпоценен (pearly, valuable), скъп (costly, dear, expensive, inestimable, pricey, sparing, swanky, sweetheart, swish, well-beloved), ценен (costly, sterling, useful, valuable), много ужасно, маниерен (affected, mannered), любим (beloved, darling, dear, favorite, favourite, inamorato, love, lover, mash, paramour, pet, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, true love, well-beloved), префинен (fastidious, refined), превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy), истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, proper, pucka, pukka, pure, real, regular, regularly, right, right-down, sheer, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual). (various references)

Chinese 

貴重 , 貴 (expensive, noble, your), 珍貴 , 珍贵 (Preciousness), 瑋 (rare), 禕 (excellent, rare), 寶貴 (set store by, treasure, valuable, value), 寶 (a jewel or gem, a treasure). (various references)

Czech

vzácný (few and far between, infrequent, minor, noble, rare, scarce, uncommon, valuable), skvostný (superb), drahocenný (valuable, valued), drahý (beloved, costly, dear, expensive, own, rich). (various references)

Danish

kolloidalt aedelt metal (colloidal precious metal), aedelmetaldublé (rolled precious metal), aedelsten (precious stone), aedelt metal (precious metal), børs for ædle metaller (precious metals market), bearbejdet aedelsten (worked precious stone), fremstilling af smykker,guld-og sølvvarer,bearbejdning af ædelsten og smykkesten (manufacture of articles of jewellery and goldsmiths'and silversmiths'wares;cutting and otherwise working of precious and semi-precious stones), gødningsstoffer,rå undtagen gødningsstoffer henhørende under afdeling 56,og mineraler,rå,undtagen kul,olie og ædelsten (and crude minerals, crude fertilizers, excluding coal, other than those of division 56, petroleum and precious stones), genstand af ædelt metal (article of precious metal), genstand af ædle multimetaller (article comprising various precious metals), aedelmetal (precious metal), indfattet aedelsten (set precious stone), ubearbejdet aedelsten (unworked precious stone), kolloidt aedelt metal (colloidal precious metal), legering af aedle metaller (precious metal alloy), monteret aedelsten (mounted precious stone), naturlig aedelsten (precious stone), rekonstrueret aedelsten (reconstructed precious stone, reconstructed stone), rekonstrueret sten (reconstructed precious stone, reconstructed stone), salt af aedle metaller (salt of precious metals), sleben aedelsten (cut precious stone), syntetisk aedelsten (synthetic precious stone, synthetic stone), syntetisk sten (boule, synthetic precious stone, synthetic stone), imitationer af aedelsten (imitation precious stones). (various references)

Dutch

zeldzaam (rare). (various references)

Esperanto

rara (rare). (various references)

Faeroese

sjáldsamur (curious, interesting, quaint, rare), rárur (rare). (various references)

Farsi 

فوق العاده (Extra, Extraordinary, Inestimable, Phenomenal, Singular, Strenuous, Supernatural, Terrific), پرارزش (Dear), نفیس (Exquisite, Valuable), تصنعی گرامی , بسیار (Abundant, All, Damn, Extra, Far, Galore, Lot, Manifold, Many, Much, Multifarious, Plenty, Somush, Sopping, Sorely, Very). (various references)

Finnish

kallisarvoinen (costly, of value, priceless, valuable). (various references)

French

précieux (pricey), rare, joli (pretty), de valeur, cher (at a premium, priced, pricey), chéri, adoré. (various references)

German

kostbar (golden, luxurious, preciously, sumptuous, sumptuously, valuable). (various references)

Greek 

πολύτιμοσ (valuable, valued), πολύτιμος (gemstone, valuable, valuable for), εξεζητημένοσ (dandified, farfetched, mannered, pretentious), ακριβόσ (costly, dear, expensive, pricey), τέλειοσ (accomplished, arrant, complete, consummate, finished, outright, perfect, stark, straight out), τιμαλφής (valuable). (various references)

Hebrew 

יקר (dear, expensive), בעל ערך (valuable), רב ערך (invaluable, sterling, valuable). (various references)

Hungarian

drága (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, lovely, pricey, sumptuous, valuable), kecses (agile, becoming, dainty, fluent, graceful, picked, slim), finnyás (choosey, choosy, dainty, fastidious, pernickety, queasy, sophisticated, squeamish), értékes (costly, estimable, expensive things, golden, invaluable, of value, priceless, prize, substantial, to be of value, to be worth money, to do yeoman service, to do yeoman's service, valuable). (various references)

Icelandic

sjaldgæfur (rare). (various references)

Indonesian

bernilai (valuable), berharga (valuable, worth). (various references)

Irish

luachmhar. (various references)

Italian

prezioso (costly, dear, valuable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貴い (exalted, noble, priceless, sacred, valuable), 惜しい (disappointing, regrettable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たっとい (exalted, noble, priceless, sacred, valuable), おしい (disappointing, regrettable), プレシャス , そ�" (disadvantage, exalted, loss, noble, priceless, sacred, southeast, valuable), きちょう (basis, book-keeping, coming back to ones country, entry, keynote, pilot, registry, returning from abroad, screen, signature, valuable), とうとい (exalted, noble, priceless, sacred, valuable). (various references)

Korean 

매우 (Pretty, ultra, Ultra-). (various references)

Manx

leagharagh (valuable, valued), leaghar (costly, valuable), leagh mooar (high price), ennoil (dear, endearing, loved, popular), costallagh (costly, rich), costal (cost, costly, sumptuous, valuable), braew (brave, fine, handsome, nice, rare, splendid). (various references)

Pig Latin

eciouspray.(various references)

Portuguese

precioso (bijou, gold, golden, orient, orientate, rare, unpriced, valuable). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

preciosos. (various references)

Romanian

preţios (affected, bombastic, costly, dear, euphuistic, flatulent, golden, grandiose, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, ornate, valuable, valued), valoros (distinguished, important, talented, useful, valuable, weighty), scump (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, high, lovely, miserly, own, pricey, valuable), iubit (beloved, darling, dear, favorite, favourite, follower, lief, loved, lover, own, paramour, sweetheart, wooer), grozav de (clinking, damnably), drag (affection, beloved, cherished, darling, dear, expensive, favorite, favourite, honey, love, lovely, pet, sake, shine, valuable), de preţ, comoarã (duck, gem, hoard, knock out, love, mine, riches, spoil, thesaurus, treasure, treasury, wealth), al naibii (confounded, cursed, damned, deuced, perishing), absolut (absolute, absolutely, arbitrarily, be sure, blank, boundless, broad, categorical, categorically, coercive, complete, completely, dead, downright, emphatic, entire, essential, finished, flat, inalienable, just, perfect, physically, positive, positively, pure, sheer, simple, strict, sure, there's no doubt about it, thorough, thoroughly, total, unequivocal, unfailingly, unlimited, unmistakable, unmistakably, unqualified, unrestricted, utter). (various references)

Russian 

драгоценный (bijou). (various references)

Scottish

prìseil, luachmhor. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dragocen (cherished, valuable, valued), drag (darling, dear, disarming, nice). (various references)

Spanish

precioso (beautiful, dainty, diamond, dinky, dreamy, frabjous, lovely, nice). (various references)

Swedish

värdefull (valuable, worth while), dyrbar (beloved, costly, costy, dear, expensive, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Turkish

pahalı (costly, dear, expensive, high priced, pricey, pricy, rich, sumptuous), yapmacıklı (affecting, feignedly, mannered, stiff necked, stilted), tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, at large, bang, bang on, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, hollow, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, properly, quite, richly, roundly, sheer, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly, wide), sevgili (beau, beloved, concubine, darling, dear, dearie, deary, dove, doxy, duck, duckie, ducky, fancy man, favorite, favourite, feller, fellow, flame, gallant, Gill, girl, inamorata, inamorato, Jill, ladylove, love, loved, lover, paramour, pet, queen, steady, sweetheart, sweetie, sweety, Truelove, well-beloved), kıymetli (dear, pet, valuable, valued), fazlasıyla (amply, damned, darned, disproportionate, eminently, exceedingly, extremely, far better, in spades, jolly, largely, more than enough, parlous, strongly, superfluously), değerli (costly, dear, deserving, dignified, estimable, meritorious, rich, Valent, valuable, valued, well-beloved, worthy), can (beloved, darling, esprit, heart, life, lifeblood, soul, spirit, vitality), büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide), aziz (August, dear, ducky, glorious, mighty, Reverend, Saint, saintly, st, st.), aşırı ince, aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Ukrainian

страшенно (almighty, aloud, as anything, awfully, bloody, deadly, devilish, disgustingly, fearfully, frightfully, horribly, terrible), страшенний (abysmal, almighty, arch-, blue, deuced, hideous, howling, infernal, rabid, raging, right-down, terrible), коштовний (costive, costly, expensive, oriental, pearly, sumptuous), вишуканий (accomplished, ambitious, becoming, chic, choice, courtly, dainty, delicate, distinguished, dressmaker, exquisite, fine, foppish, kid glove, minion, nice, nutty, polished, polite, quaint, recherche, trim, way up), любий (beloved, chary, darling, dear, honey, lovable, own, pretty), дуже (anxiously, awfully, bang, bitter, bloody, clinking, curiously, deep, enormously, exceedingly, frightfully, full, gey, greatly, hard, heaps, highly, hugely, immensely, in great measure, jolly, mightily, mighty, miles, much, nervously, notably, particularly, passing, purely, real, really, shocking, some, strong, super, thumping, too, very, very much, violently, well, widely), досконалий (accomplished, complete, ideal, in depth, perfect), дорогоцінний, дорогий (chary, costly, darling, dear, own). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô cùng (ad infinitum, almighty, consumedly, day, deeply, dreadfully, extremely, frightfuly, half, halves, most, parlous, passing, plaguy, preciously, rank, termless, thundering, utmost, uttermost), ra trò (properly, some), quý giá (preciously), quý báu cầu kỳ (preciously), quý (preciously, term, valued), lắm (clinking, dogged, ever, gey, highly, jolly, lousy, mighty, preciously, very), kiểu cách (euphuistic, fashion, frill, fussy, lardy-dardy, mannered, preciously), khác thường..., hết sức (all-fired, blooming, deadly, dogged, enourmously, extremely, fault, frightfuly, grossly, half, halves, handle, highly, howling, hugely, immortally, jolly, mightily, mighty, out, profound, sorely, thoroughly, thundering, unco), ghê gớm (burning, desperate, fearful, formidable, gruesome, mortally, obscene, plaguy, preciously, terrible, thundering, tremendous, woefully). (various references)

Welsh

mindlws (affected, simpering), gwerthfawr (valuable), drud (costly, dear, reckless). (various references)

cari, cariae, carior, caris, carissima, carissimam, carissime, carissimi, carissimis, carissimo, carissimos, carissimum, carissimus, caro, carum, pretiosa, pretiosam, pretiosarum, pretiosas, pretiosi, pretiosior, pretiosiorem, pretiosis, pretiosissima, pretiosissimas, pretiosissimis, pretiosissimo, pretiosius, pretioso, pretiosos, pretiosum, pretiosus. (various references)

deore. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "precious": preciouses, preciously, preciousness, preciousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "precious": semiprecious. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Precious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perciou, percious, perious, pernious, precibus, precience, preciiou, preciious, precio, precios, precipous, precipus, precisous, precius, preclous, precocus, precoious, precous, precrious, preious, prepcoms, prescious, presious, pretiosum, pricious, procious, Proculus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: copiers, croupes, piceous, recoups, soupier.

-2 letters: cerous, copers, copier, copies, corpse, corpus, cosier, coupes, course, cripes, croupe, croups, crouse, cruise, curies, curios, poiser, poseur, precis, prices, recoup, source, spicer, spruce, uprise, uprose.

-3 letters: ceros, cires, coirs, coper, copes, copse, cores, corps, corse, cosie, coupe, coups, cries, cripe, crisp, crops, croup, cruse, cures, curie.

+1 letter: croupiers, croupiest, occupiers, outprices, supercoil.

+2 letters: copurifies, percussion, pernicious, porcupines, precarious, preciouses, preciously, preclusion, precocious, predacious, proscenium, reoccupies, supercoils, supermicro, supersonic, supertonic, uroscopies.

+3 letters: computerise, computerist, copublisher, cupriferous, percussions, persecution, perspicuous, precautions, precipitous, preclusions, prefocusing, preoccupies, prosceniums, prosecuting, prosecution, supercoiled, supermicros, supersonics, supertonics.

+4 letters: archesporium, computerised, computerises, computerists, computerizes, computerniks, consumership, copublishers, corpulencies, counterpoise, counterspies, cupronickels, discomposure, executorship, microcapsule, mispronounce, mucoproteins, neuroleptics, peritrichous, perniciously, persecutions, pertinacious, plutocracies, portcullises, precariously, preciousness, precociously, preconscious, prefocussing, prosecutions, repercussion, semiprecious, supercilious, supercoiling, supercooling, superorganic.