Synonyms for Precious

Synonyms for "precious" (208 found)

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Closest matches (42)

Adjective(8 words)

cherished treasured valued beloved costly cute dear dearest

absolute admired adored affected alembicated angel arrant artful artificial babe baby baby-doll belovedbeyond pricebuttercup cherished cherub chichi chick chickabiddy

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choice choosy classical complete consummate costly crass darling deardearly beloveddeary decided definitive doll

Strong matches (62)

downright duck duckling effete egregious elaborate elaborated elegant esteemed euphemistic euphuistic exact expensive exquisite fastidious favorite finicky flagrant formalistic fussy

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glaring golden gongoresque gongoristicgood as goldgoody good-goodgoody goodygoody-goody gross hallowedheld dearhigh-priced hon honeyhoney bunchhoney childhyperelegant idolized inestimable intolerable invaluable irreplaceablela-di-dalamb lambkin love loved lover luxurious mannered marinistic methodical meticulous mincingnamby pambynamby-pamby

Adjective(3 words)

esteemedgold coinholy

Verb(1 words)

gemmed

Adverb(1 words)

most

Noun(1 words)

most valued

Related words (104)

niceof great priceorderly ostentatiousout-and-outoutright overdone overelaborate overelegant overnice overprecise overrefined particular pedantic perfect persnickety pet petkins picky popular

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Adjective(9 words)

notable prized rarerare caserare valuesacred valuablevaluable lessonwanted

Adverb(5 words)

preciously rattling real really very

Noun(2 words)

treasuring worth

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries

emotional valueimportance significance valuevalued objectworth

More specific

6 entries

cherished memoryholy artifactprecious metalprecious stoneprized possessionsacred relic

Collocations

5 entries

precious memoryprecious metalprecious resourceprecious stoneprecious time

Inflections

2 entries

more preciousmost precious

Derivations

2 entries

preciously preciousness

similar

4 entries

artful loved valuable worthy

Sample sentences

28 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Your friendship is most precious to me.

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Gold is more precious than iron.

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Gold is more precious than any other metal.

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Nothing is as precious as friendship.

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