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adj
Having great or incalculable value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: priceless, inestimable, unvaluable, invaluable, precious, unpriced, without price, worth one's weight in gold
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: valuable, precious, crucial, estimable, worthy, worthly, prizable, treasurous, worth every penny
adj
Not valuable; valueless; worthless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: no-good, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, worthless, worth nothing, wutless
Antonyms: valuable, precious, crucial, estimable, worthy, worthly, prizable, treasurous, worth every penny
adjective satellite
having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: priceless
Antonyms: none provided
History
From in- + valuable (compare priceless). Piecewise doublet of unvaluable.
Across languages
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
