different between cherished vs precious
cherished
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?????t/
- Hyphenation: cher?ished
Adjective
cherished (comparative more cherished, superlative most cherished)
- highly valued, having a high personal value.
- Synonym: treasured
- Antonym: despised
Verb
cherished
- simple past tense and past participle of cherish
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precious
English
Alternative forms
- pretious (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English precious, borrowed from Old French precios (“valuable, costly, precious, beloved, also affected, finical”), from Latin preti?sus (“of great value, costly, dear, precious”), from pretium (“value, price”); see price.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p????s/
- Rhymes: -???s
Adjective
precious (comparative more precious, superlative most precious)
- Of high value or worth.
- Regarded with love or tenderness.
- (derogatory) Treated with too much reverence.
- (derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.
- (colloquial) Thorough; utter.
- a precious rascal
Synonyms
- (of high value): dear, valuable
- (contrived to charm): saccharine, syrupy, twee
Derived terms
- nonprecious
- precious metal
- precious stone
- preciously
- preciousness
- semiprecious
Related terms
Translations
Noun
precious (plural preciouses)
- Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
- 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
- “It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?”
- 1909, Mrs. Teignmouth Shore, The Pride of the Graftons (page 57)
- She sat down with the dogs in her lap. "I won't neglect you for any one, will I, my preciouses?"
- 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Adverb
precious (not comparable)
- Very; an intensifier.
- There is precious little we can do.
- precious few pictures of him exist
Usage notes
This adverb is chiefly used before few and little; usage with other adjectives (slight, small, scant) is much more sporadic, and is in any case limited to the semantic field of “little, small, scarce, few”.
Translations
Further reading
- precious on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- precious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- precious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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