invaluableadj.n.
/ɪnˈvaljuːəb(ə)l/ 1. † b. Too great to be estimated; incalculable.
a. That cannot be valued; above and beyond valuation; of surpassing or transcendent worth or merit; priceless, inestimable.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > invaluable
impreciable1502
invaluable1576
inestimable1579
priceless1594
valueless1610
impretiable1639
inappreciable1787
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [adjective] > beyond valuation
unprizablec1400
unvaluable?1569
invaluable1576
inestimable1579
unvalued1590
priceless1594
unprized1601
invalued1603
unrateable1629
unpriceablea1641
unpriced1839
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 172 (margin) Honest and faithful friends are an invaluable jewel.
1622 R. Aylett in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 203 This most rich inualewable treasure.
1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 92 A Box wherein was her Pourtraiture of an invaluable worth.
1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vi. 262 A good name..is a valuable, or if you will, an invaluable thing, not to be valued by money.
1741 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before House of Lords 21 A free Government..is an invaluable Blessing.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 29 All men know..that to men and Nations there are invaluable values which cannot be sold for money at all.
1879 M. Arnold Democracy in Mixed Ess. 37 Its negative intellectual action..has been invaluable.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge > therefore not able to be measured or estimated
unachteleda1325
inestimablec1374
unmeasureda1398
untolda1400
measurelessc1400
unmeasurablec1400
immeasurable1440
immensurable1535
unestimable1542
modeless1583
immeasured1590
unvalued1590
countless1593
unrecomptless1593
inestimate1614
starlike1616
unmeted1635
inestimal1678
invaluablea1694
immensurate1720
incalculablea1797
uncountable1858
a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1744) XI. 4818 In contemplation of his sufferings, and of their own invaluable loss.
1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. ii. v. 179 Books..which do in some measure make amends for the otherwise invaluable Loss.
2. Without value, valueless.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless
naughteOE
unworthc960
nought worthOE
unworthya1240
vaina1300
lewd1362
base?1510
to be nothing toc1520
stark naught1528
nothing worth1535
worthilessa1542
draffish1543
baggage1548
dunghill?1555
valureless1563
toyish1572
worthless1573
out (forth) of door (also doors)1574
leaden1577
riff-raff1577
drafty1582
fecklessc1586
dudgeon?1589
nought-worth1589
tenpenny1592
wanwordy?a1595
shotten herring1598
nugatory1603
unvalued1604
priceless1614
unvaluable1615
valuelessa1616
waste1616
trashya1620
draffy1624
stramineous1624
invaluable1640
roly-poly?1645
nugatorious1646
perquisquilian1647
niffling1649
lazy1671
wanworth1724
little wortha1754
flimsy1756
waff1788
null1790
nothingy1801
nothingly1802
twopenny-halfpenny1809
not worth a flaw1810
garbage1817
peanut1836
duffing1839
trash1843
no-account1845
no-count1851
punky1859
rummagy1872
junky1880
skilligalee1883
footle1894
punk1896
wherry-go-nimble1901
junk1908
rinky-dink1913
schlock1916
tripe1927
duff1938
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
expendable1942
(strictly) for the birds1943
tripey1955
schlocky1960
naff1964
dipshit1968
cack1978
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [adjective]
leera1250
unprofitablea1398
noughtc1400
inutile1484
unutilea1500
vain1578
useless1593
unuseful1604
serviceless1608
aidless1674
unproductive1713
good-for-nothing1727
nowt1790
invaluable1803
stupid1844
dud1904
puckerooed1919
1640 Treaty at Ripon (1869) p. xiv The money I have received is so invaluable a sum that I have forborne as yet to pay it in.
1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. i. 41 I flatter'd myself I might not be altogether invaluable to your Ladyship.
1865 T. Wright in Intellectual Observer No. 47. 385 An interesting and far from an invaluable labour.
Derivatives
inˈvaluableness n. inestimableness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [noun] > beyond valuation
invaluableness1647
pricelessness1834
1647 Bp. J. Hall Satans Fiery Darts ii. 228 Deny, if thou canst, the invaluablenesse of this heavenly gift.
inˈvaluably adv. beyond valuation, inestimably.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > immeasurably or inestimably
unimetelya1240
unmeasurablyc1390
unmeasurablec1443
inestimablec1460
inestimablya1530
uncountably1599
invaluably1601
unmeasuredly1602
immeasurably1631
incommensurably1652
incalculably1806
measurelessly1839
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. Dv Loue, Invaluably pretious.
1626 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Thanksgiuing 39 That invaluablie precious blood of the Sonne of God.
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