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precious | treasurable |

As adjectives the difference between precious and treasurable

is that precious is of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such while treasurable is capable of or worthy of being treasured.

As a noun precious

is someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.

As an adverb precious

is Used as an intensifier.

As a proper noun Precious

is {{surname|from=nicknames|lang=en}}, originating as a male or female nickname.

precious

English

Alternative forms

* pretious (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Polly Toynbee)
    • , volume=189, issue=10, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Britain's booming birthrate , passage=People are a good thing, the most precious resource in a rich economy, so the progressive-minded feel. Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.}}
  • Regarded with love or tenderness.
  • (pejorative) Treated with too much reverence.
  • (pejorative) Contrived to be cute or charming.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 24, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
    • , title= Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (of high value) dear, valuable * (contrived to charm) saccharine, syrupy, twee

    Related terms

    * appraise * appreciate * depreciate * praise * precious few * precious little * price

    Noun

    (es)
  • Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
  • * J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
    • “It isn't fair, my precious , is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?”
  • * 1909 , Mrs. Teignmouth Shore, The Pride of the Graftons (page 57)
    • She sat down with the dogs in her lap. "I won't neglect you for any one, will I, my preciouses ?"

    Adverb

    (-)
    • There is precious little we can do.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "precious")

    External links

    * * English degree adverbs English intensifiers

    treasurable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of or worthy of being treasured.
  • * 1910-12 , (author), Jean-Christophe, Journey's End (2007 Wildside Press ed.), ISBN 9781434482327, p. 323:
    • I had but two treasurable things in the world: my friend and my soul.
  • * 1995 , , Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness , ISBN 9780553572537, p. 21
    • He beamed his appreciation. Meticulousness was a rare and treasurable quality.