Precious

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of high value or worth.

   “The crown had many precious gemstones. This building work needs site access, and tell the city council that I don't care about a few lorry tyre ruts across their precious grass verge.”

2. sıfat Regarded with love or tenderness.

   “The way my partner looks at me is just so precious.”

3. sıfat Treated with too much reverence.

   “He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.”

4. sıfat Excessively complicated.
5. sıfat Extremely protective or strict (about something).

   “Writers are often very precious about their work.”

6. sıfat Blasted; damned.

   “It’s all owing to your precious caution that they got hold of it. If you had let me burn it, and taken my word that it was gone, it would have been a heap of ashes behind the fire, instead of being whole and sound, inside of my great-coat.”

7. sıfat Contrived to be cute or charming.

   “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.”

8. sıfat Thorough; utter.

   “a precious rascal”

9. isim Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.

   ““It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?””

10. zarf Very; an intensifier.

    “There is precious little we can do.”

11. özel isim A surname transferred from the nickname, originating as a male or female nickname.
12. özel isim A female given name from English.

    “She and Mma Ramotswe were fortunate, with their reasonably straightforward names of Grace and Precious respectively; she had contemporaries who were not so fortunate and had been saddled by their parents with names that were frankly ridiculous.”