| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person who is much loved: beloved, darling, dear, honey, love, minion, sweet, sweetheart, truelove. Informal : sweetie. Idioms: light of one's life. See LOVE. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Artificially genteel: affected2, artificial, mannered. Informal : la-di-da. See GOOD, HONEST, PLAIN, TRUE. 2. Regarded with much love and tenderness: beloved, darling, dear, loved. See LOVE. 3. Of great value: costly, inestimable, invaluable, priceless, valuable, worthy. Idioms: beyond price, of great price. See VALUE.
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