Synonyms of prized

prized 1 of 3

adjective

as in treasured

Related Words

• treasured
• admired
• esteemed
• revered
• appreciated
• preferred
• adored
• relished
• beloved
• cherished
• loved
• favored
• special
• precious
• pet
• favorite
• fond
• dear
• darling
• fair-haired
• sweet
• white-headed

Dissimilar Words

• disliked
• despised
• hated
• detested
• ignored
• loathed
• abhorred
• forgotten
• disfavored
• abandoned
• disdained
• unbeloved
• alienated
• execrated
• abominated
• unfavorite
• estranged

prized

2 of 3

verb (1)

past tense of prize

1

as in pried

to draw out by force or with effort

prizing the stubborn nails out of the board

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pried
• pulled
• extracted
• plucked
• yanked
• uprooted
• tore (out)
• removed
• wrested
• rooted (out)
• mined
• took (out)
• wrung
• corkscrewed
• withdrew

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• inserted
• installed
• implanted
• instilled
• stuffed
• jammed
• crammed
• wedged
• rammed

2

as in pulled

to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a lever

trying to prize apart the jammed gears

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pried
• pulled
• lifted
• divided
• elevated
• levered
• hoisted
• jimmied
• broke
• separated
• detached
• shifted
• uplifted
• parted
• disengaged
• broke up
• disjoined

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• connected
• joined

prized

3 of 3

verb (2)

past tense of prize

as in valued

to hold dear

veterinarians know that pets are highly prized by their owners

Synonyms & Similar Words

• valued
• treasured
• loved
• appreciated
• enjoyed
• cherished
• admired
• respected
• regarded
• revered
• relished
• liked
• venerated
• reverenced
• esteemed
• delighted (in)
• fancied
• grooved (on)
• enshrined
• set store by
• reveled (in)
• memorialized
• dug
• caressed
• idolized
• apprized
• adored
• worshipped
• doted (on)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undervalued
• hated
• despised
• detested
• loathed
• disdained
• abhorred
• scorned
• disvalued
• execrated
• abominated
• snubbed
• scouted
• disparaged
• abandoned
• neglected
• sniffed (at)
• slighted
• depreciated
• belittled
• decried
• minimized
• put down
• forgot
• deprecated
• wrote off
• high-hatted
• cried down
• bad-mouthed
• kissed off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of prized

Adjective

Guests love watching for wildlife, searching for prized shells and fishing on charter boats or from the Bayview Fishing Pier. — South Seas Island Resort, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

At daybreak, rancher Martín Alfonso Ibarra takes advantage of the cooler hours in northern Mexico’s desert to oversee the milking of his cows and tend to 16 prized calves. — Fabiola Sánchez, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026

After a long day, settle in at Le Vernex, the hotel's restaurant, to enjoy regional cuisine combined with prized Swiss wines, and for those who wish to take it easy, the wellness area with a heated pool and a bio sauna is nearby. — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026

For instance, a fish passage around Kletzsch Dam in Glendale has opened up 54 miles of river for prized fish like salmon and steelhead to move upstream and spawn. — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2026

The Braves have remained extremely cautious with prized reliever Robert Suárez’s rehab. — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 5 Aug. 2026

In the back, gallon-size gourds used by Rwandans for fermenting and brewing—some hollowed out more than 80 years ago—were displayed as prized heirlooms. — Alicia Erickson, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026

There’s also 20-year-old Connor Zilisch, who’s had a challenging rookie season but is still one of the most prized young drivers to ever join the Cup Series. — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

There are plenty of pork cracklings scattered throughout the mofongo, but each little prized pop of crunch and salt feels like a reward. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026

Verb

The turbines supply warehouse-scale buildings filled with racks of servers built around graphics processing units, or GPUs, the chips first popularized by video games and now prized for training and running AI models. — Austyn Gaffney, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026

Black pepper from India became particularly prized in Roman cooking, while Arabian ports and merchants played an important role in trade between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. — Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Sep. 2026

One path for mixed white-Asian actors was to find a foothold in Asia, where a Wasian appearance was prized in modeling and entertainment. — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

This serves as an important learning curve on the route to F1, where drivers who can easily tell their teams how a car can be refined to go faster are prized. — Luke Smith, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

And though there’s a sense Anthropic fever has escalated in recent months (including the demand explosion around the company’s mammoth $65 billion fundraise), Anthropic shares have been the most prized for some time. — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

Plus, the pewter-like hue of tantalum has a certain appeal that can’t be achieved in other materials and it’s also prized for its anti-corrosive properties. — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2026

The same immigrant culture also prized education, argument, ingenuity and, out of necessity, the ability to make something out of nothing. — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026

The army Mladic created to fight in Bosnia was a model of ruthlessness, daring and brutality in the Serb warrior tradition, once prized in the life-or-death partisan struggle against the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in World War Two. — Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026