What is another word for held dear?

Pronunciation: [hˈɛld dˈi͡ə] (IPA)

The phrase "held dear" can be replaced with several synonyms, depending on the context and intensity of the emotions involved. One synonym is "cherished," which suggests a deep sense of affection and importance attached to something or someone. Another synonym is "treasured," which also implies high value and emotional attachment. "Beloved" is another option, indicating strong affection and love. "Adored" conveys a sense of enthusiastic love and admiration. "Precious" is another synonym that describes something held with great care and importance. All of these alternatives to "held dear" can help to add emotional depth and variety to your writing or speech.

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What are the hypernyms for Held dear?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for held dear?

Antonyms for the phrase "held dear" would indicate something that is either disliked or unimportant. The opposite of holding something dear would mean to neglect it, disregard it, or take it for granted. Some examples of antonyms for "held dear" could include abandoned, forsaken, ignored, or forgotten. These words express a sense of disinterest and a lack of fondness or affection for something. To consider something unimportant or meaningless is to hold it in disdain or reject it entirely. In this way, antonyms for "held dear" express an extreme disconnection or detachment from something that would otherwise hold significant value.

Famous quotes with Held dear

  • We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
    Virginia Hanson
  • I departed from parental paths significantly and abruptly one Sunday morning when, sitting in the family pew of the Hyde Park United Church and idly twisting a loose button on the cushion beside me, I said to myself, "I do not believe in God." Some months previously... when our minister fell back on St. Anselm's ontological argument to prove the existence of God, he entirely failed to convince me. Quite the contrary, the argument struck me as an abuse of language. Though I duly submitted to the ritual of confirmation... Horton's unconvincing argument had sown doubt in my mind; and for that reason I can assign, on that morning, listening to his more emotional, hortatory rhetoric... the balance tipped, committing me to a secret, personal rejection of the Christian piety my parents held dear.
    William H. McNeill
  • "And now, as a result of honoring our commitment to our gallant allies, that man Roosevelt has sought from the U.S. Congress a declaration of war not only against England and France but also against the Confederate States of America. His servile lackeys, misnamed Democrats, have given him what he wanted, and the telegraph informs me that fighting has begun along our border and on the high seas. Leading our great and peaceful people into war is a fearful thing, not least because, with the great advances of science and industry over the past half-century, this may prove the most disastrous and terrible of all wars, truly a war of the nations: indeed a war of the world. But right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for those things we have always held dear in our hearts: for the rights of the Confederate States and of the white men who live in them; for the liberties of small nations everywhere from outside oppression; for our own freedom and independence from the vicious, bloody regime to the north. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and fortunes, everything we are and all that we have, with the pride of those who know the day has come when the Confederacy is privileged to spend her blood and her strength for the principles that gave her birth and led to her present happiness. God helping us, we can do nothing else. Men of the Confederacy, is it your will that a state of war should exist henceforth between us and the United States of America?" "Yes!" The answer roared from Reginald Bartlett's throat, as from those of the other tens of thousands of people jamming the Capitol Square. Someone flung a straw hat in the air. In an instant, hundreds of them, Bartlett's included, were flying. A great chorus of "Dixie" rang out, loud enough, Bartlett thought, for the damnyankees to hear it in Washington.
    Harry Turtledove
  • Thou hast prevaricated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open nature trusted in thee, Thou hast slept in between me and my hopes, And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear. Thou hast betray'd me.
    Nicholas Rowe

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