precious

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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?”
形容词 adj.
  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.
  2. Regarded with love or tenderness.
    — The way my partner looks at me is just so precious.
  3. Treated with too much reverence. derogatory
    — He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
  4. Excessively complicated. ironic
  5. Extremely protective or strict (about something). informal
    — Writers are often very precious about their work.
  6. Blasted; damned. derogatory,informal
    — It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.
  7. Contrived to be cute or charming. derogatory
    — In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
  8. Thorough; utter. colloquial
    — a precious rascal
副词 adv.
  1. Very; an intensifier. not-comparable
    — There is precious little we can do.

词形变化

more precious comparative most precious superlative pretious alternative,obsolete preciouses plural pretious alternative,obsolete pretious alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
eight-precious non-precious nonprecious overprecious Precious Blood precious coral preciously precious metal preciousness precious stone semiprecious semi-precious unprecious
相关词
appraise appreciate depreciate praise preciosity precious few precious little price

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English precious, borrowed from 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.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English precious, borrowed from 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.
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English precious, borrowed from 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.
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