Wat betekent precious in het Engels en wat is de definitie van precious?

Je kunt de uitspraak, grammatica en synoniemen van precious leren in dit Engels woordenboek.

precious Betekenis, Definitie, Uitspraak, Grammatica & Synoniemen❤️

0 of great value because of being rare, expensive, or important:
- a precious gift
- a precious moment/memory
- Clean water is a precious commodity in many parts of the world.
- You're so precious to me.
1 behaving in a very formal and unnatural way by giving too much attention to details that are not important and trying too hard to be perfect:
- He's so precious about his work that he never gets anything done.
- Don't you hate the precious way she speaks, pronouncing each single consonant so precisely.
2 used to express dislike and/or anger:
- You and your precious car - it's all you're interested in!
3 very:
- Lots of people will start, but precious few will finish.
- Be careful - you'll be precious little help if you come back injured.
4 of very great value or worth:
- precious memories
- Children are our most precious resource.
- Diamonds and rubies are precious stones.
5 very:
- He earns precious little money.

The museum is full of rare and precious treasures.
a collection of precious objects
precious stones
Hurry up now, you're wasting precious time!
This letter is really precious to me because it's the last one that Pete ever wrote.
The continuous decline in precious-metal content was the safety valve that made possible the stability of prices expressed in trade coins.
Precious metal coinages and the mass disbursements of imported wine, attested in a few regions archaeologically, fit comfortably into an analysis of this kind.
Look at it this way: in some moods, or in some contexts, one might think that human beings are precious.