Crossword-Solution: PRECIOUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Precious | a. | Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. |
| Precious | a. | Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. |
| Precious | a. | Particular; fastidious; overnice. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRECIOUS | anagram | RICESOUP |
We have 42 clues for the answer “PRECIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of high worth or cost | 1 answer |
| So special | 1 answer |
| Like gold dust | 1 answer |
| Highly cherished | 1 answer |
| Like gold | 3 answers |
| overnice | 9 answers |
| invaluable | 9 answers |
| Prized | 13 answers |
| Price-less? | 16 answers |
| Endearing | 18 answers |
| Inestimable | 20 answers |
| Favorite | 24 answers |
| turgid | 28 answers |
| overformal | 28 answers |
| Costly | 29 answers |
| stilted | 30 answers |
| idolised | 32 answers |
| Term of affection | 33 answers |
| Treasured. | 34 answers |
| distended | 35 answers |
| mannered | 36 answers |
| Term of endearment. | 42 answers |
| Puffed | 44 answers |
| Cute | 47 answers |
| wooden | 47 answers |
| AMIE, BONNE | 47 answers |
| AMI, BON | 48 answers |
| Beloved | 49 answers |
| Stuffy | 50 answers |
| Posh | 50 answers |
| very good | 53 answers |
| Expensive | 58 answers |
| Golden | 59 answers |
| Valuable | 60 answers |
| Ostentatious | 65 answers |
| Conceited | 66 answers |
| swollen | 67 answers |
| Esteem-ed | 67 answers |
| Bombastic | 72 answers |
| "Dear __" | 77 answers |
| Very | 77 answers |
| Sweet | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRECIOUS (5)
Yet a nameless fear clutched at her heart and made her cry, “Oh, how I wish that I wasn’t going to a party to-night!” Even Michael, already half asleep, knew that she was perturbed, and he asked, “Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?” “Nothing, precious,” she said; “they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.” She went from bed to bed singing enchantments over them, and little Michael flung his arms round her.
The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: “If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!” The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose.
When I think that these precious souls are to-day shut up in the prison-house of slavery, my feelings overcome me, and I am almost ready to ask, “Does a righteous God govern the universe? and for what does he hold the thunders in his right hand, if not to smite the oppressor, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the spoiler?” These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged.
Output of the extractive industries includes coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals.
Here he passed with her under the archway into a private room; and by the time he had deposited—so lothly—the precious burden upon a sofa, Bathsheba had opened her eyes, and remembering all that had occurred, murmured, “I want to go home!” Boldwood left the room.
Quotes with PRECIOUS (3)
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like …
It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1956–2014).