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  1. behaving in a very formal and unnatural way by giving too much attention to details that are not important and trying too hard to be perfect: He's so precious about his work that he never gets anything done. Don't you hate the precious way she speaks, pronouncing each single consonant so precisely. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  2. Plot. In 1987, 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones lives in New York City 's Harlem neighborhood with her unemployed mother, Mary, who has long subjected her to physical, sexual, and verbal abuse. Precious has also been raped by her now-absent father, Carl, resulting in two pregnancies.

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  4. The meaning of PRECIOUS is of great value or high price. How to use precious in a sentence.

  5. Nov 20, 2009 · Precious. In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.

  6. rare and very valuable: a precious vase. a precious metal / stone. precious. adverb. uk / ˈpreʃəs / us. precious few/little. very little or very few of something: We have precious little money at present.

  7. If you say that something such as a resource is precious, you mean that it is valuable and should not be wasted or used badly.

  8. Precious definition: of high price or great value; very valuable or costly. See examples of PRECIOUS used in a sentence.

  9. To call something precious is to describe it as highly valued. Think of a gemstone when you call your baby sister precious. Diamonds, emeralds and rubies are all precious stones and gold and silver are precious metals. If it is something valuable and treasured, it can be called precious too.

  10. Definition of precious adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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