Precious definition

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of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such
- 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.
regarded with love or tenderness.
- My precious daughter is to marry
treated with too much reverence.
- He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.

someone (or something) who is loved; a darling
- "It isn't fair, my precious to ask us what it's got in its nasty pockets" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit