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adjective having a value beyond all price; invaluable: a priceless artwork.
delightfully amusing or absurd: a priceless anecdote.
Origin of priceless First recorded in 1905–10; price + -less
SYNONYMS FOR priceless 1 irreplaceable, precious, costly, incomparable.
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OTHER WORDS FROM priceless price·less·ness, noun Words nearby priceless price fixing, price gouging, price index, Price-Jones curve, price leadership, priceless , price list, price on one's head, price out of the market, price point, pricer
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Example sentences from the Web for priceless Actor and explorer Michael Palin, visiting in 2001, described one elderly bookkeeper showing off his priceless wares.
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The room was piled high with boxes containing the priceless tickets for Gatecrasher Balls.
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No amount of money could meet his demands, making the damages for his suit “priceless ”—hence the astronomical sum.
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And when he reads his admission letter, his jubilant reaction is priceless .
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The film is stupendous art, but it owes much to a priceless piece of document.
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Other wholesome counsel, which he added, made the Farewell Address a priceless heritage to the generations that came after him.
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Are you for Freedom, with its priceless blessings, or are you for Slavery, with its countless wrongs and woes?
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Mavis fingered them delicately as if they were priceless treasures.
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I might enumerate the priceless gifts they showered on me; gifts bought not with gold but with love.
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Nor can it, I hope, be blotted from the memory of the American people, to whom it has now become a priceless possession.
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British Dictionary definitions for priceless adjective of inestimable worth; beyond valuation; invaluable
informal extremely amusing or ridiculous
Derived forms of priceless pricelessly , adverb pricelessness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to priceless incalculable, valuable, rare, invaluable, expensive, collectible, prized, treasured, cherished, amusing, hilarious, costly, dear, incomparable, inestimable, rich, valued, beyond price, out-of-bounds, out-of-sight