Crossword-Solution: PRECIOUS 8 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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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.

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PRECIOUS anagram RICESOUP

We have 42 clues for the answer “PRECIOUS”

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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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One who, or that which, eats.
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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.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
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.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
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.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Output of the extractive industries includes coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
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.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

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.
Carl Sagan Cosmos
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 …
Jim Morrison
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.
Mark Twain
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1956–2014).