PRÉCIEUSE

Meaning of PRÉCIEUSE in English

adjective see: précieux

Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012

PRÉCIEUSE — (ˈ)prās|y]ə(r)z, |prāsē|(y)], ]ə̄z noun ( plural précieuses “\) Etymology: French, from précieuse, adjective : an affected woman of polite society …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRECIEUSE — (n.) An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th …
Английский словарь Webster
PRÉCIEUSE — /pray'see ooz"/ ; Fr. /prdday syuez"/ , n. , pl. précieuses /-see ooz"iz/ ; Fr. /-syuez"/ , adj. n. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PRÉCIEUSE — see précieux
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PRECIEUSE — add. ·noun an affected woman of polite society, ·esp. one of the literary women of the french salons of the …
Webster English vocab
PRÉCIEUX — or précieuse adjective Etymology: French ~, masculine, & précieuse, feminine, literally, precious, from Middle French precios Date: 1727 precious 3
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PRÉCIEUX — I. ]ə, ]ər(.), ]ə̄ adjective or pré·cieuse ]ə(r)z, ]ə̄z Etymology: French précieux, masculine, literally, precious (from Old French precios, precieus …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRECIOUS — (a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice; overrefined. Cf. Precieuse, Preciosity.
Английский словарь Webster
PRÉCIEUX — adjective or pré·cieuse -ˈsyœz Etymology: French précieux, masculine, & précieuse, feminine, literally, precious, from Middle French precios Date: 1727 : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PRECIOUS — adj particular; fastidious; overnice. 2. precious ·adj of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. 3. precious ·add. ·adj particular; …
Webster English vocab
PRECIEUX — [pre.cieux] or pre.cieuse adj [F precieux, masc., & precieuse, fem., lit., precious, fr. MF precios] (1727): precious 3
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UNNATURAL
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TOAST — Synonyms and related words : French bread, Irish soda bread, Italian bread, anniversaries, appreciation, bake, barbecue, baste, be in heat, …
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STUDIED — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, advised, affected, aforethought, aimed, aimed at, artificial, calculated, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, …
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SIMPERING — Synonyms and related words : elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, mincing, namby-pamby, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, pedantic, precieuse, …
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PURISTIC — Synonyms and related words : Sabbatarian, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, creedbound, critical, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, dour, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, …
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PURIST
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PRETENTIOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, ambitious, arrogant, artificial, arty, aureate, bedizened, big, big-sounding, bombastic, chichi, …
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PRECISIAN — Synonyms and related words : Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, captious critic, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, …
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PRECIOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, absolute, admired, adored, affected, alembicated, angel, arrant, artful, artificial, babe, baby, baby-doll, …
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PEDANTIC — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, …
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PEDANT — Synonyms and related words : Babbitt, Gongorist, Marinist, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, …
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OVERREFINED — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allergic, anaphylactic, apparently sound, artificial, casuistic, chichi, colorable, deceptive, delicate, disingenuous, …
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OVERNICE — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, artificial, chichi, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, …
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OVERELABORATE — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Johnsonian, Marinistic, affected, arabesque, artificial, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, busy, chichi, convoluted, declamatory, elaborate, …
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NAMBY PAMBY — Synonyms and related words : Milquetoast, baby, banal, bathetic, bathos, beery, betwixt and between, big baby, bland, bleeding heart, breakable, …
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MINCING — Synonyms and related words : affected, dainty, dandyish, delicate, effeminate, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, foppish, formalistic, …
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MANNERED — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allusive, artificial, behaved, behavioral, behaviored, behaviorist, behavioristic, conscious, contrived, demeanored, elaborate, …
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GOODY GOODY — Synonyms and related words : Lord Fauntleroy, Pecksniffian, Percy, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, Victorian, affected, bluenose, canting, chicken, cream puff, effeminate, elegant, …
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FORMALISTIC — Synonyms and related words : accordant, anal, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist, conventional, conventionalized, corresponding, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, extrinsic, formal, …
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FORMALIST — Synonyms and related words : Babbitt, High-Churchist, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Middle American, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Philistine, Sabbatarian, Tartuffe, Vicar …
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Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster

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