English Dictionary

precious

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɛʃ.əs/

形容詞

軽蔑的 くだけた表現 口語

Of high value or worth. / Regarded with love or tenderness. / (derogatory) Treated with too much reverence. / (informal, derogatory) Blasted; damned. / (derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.

日本語の意味

貴重で価値のある / 愛情や優しさで大切にされる / （軽蔑的に）過剰に敬愛される / （非公式、軽蔑的に）忌々しい、くそったれ / （軽蔑的に）わざと可愛らしく振る舞う

That antique pocket watch is precious to me because it belonged to my grandmother.

その古い懐中時計は祖母のものだったので、私にとって貴重です。

意味（1）

Of high value or worth.

People are a good thing, the most precious resource in a rich economy, so the progressive-minded feel. Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.

意味（2）

Regarded with love or tenderness.

My precious daughter is to marry.

意味（3）

(derogatory) Treated with too much reverence.

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

意味（4）

(informal, derogatory) 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.

意味（5）

(derogatory) 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.

意味（6）

(colloquial) Thorough; utter.

a precious rascal

more precious （ comparative ）

most precious （ superlative ）