Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being above price; invaluable; priceless.
- Valueless; worthless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Invaluable; being beyond price.
- adjective rare Not valuable; having little value.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If it is to dismiss a work of literature/art as unvaluable/irrelevant, don't we already do this by not attending it, or by not investing our desires and passions in it?
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Of course, I am not saying that research is easy or unvaluable.
Same Old Shit Mad Hatter 2008
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Plus, I never really got my feet wet, so being a quitter easing out of Oxfam and taking my rather unvaluable self elsewhere surely won't be too hard.
Reassessment 2005
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The customer would be diverted for a moment while the seller would exchange bags, replacing the valuable piglet for a totally common and unvaluable cat.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Very Practical Advice, Part XIII: The end of the line 2007
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Plus, I never really got my feet wet, so being a quitter easing out of Oxfam and taking my rather unvaluable self elsewhere surely won't be too hard.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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Miriam would be proud – we had plenty of nutritionally valuable vegetables, even it was followed by a totally unvaluable chocolate tart.
bumpsadaisy Diary Entry bumpsadaisy 2006
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But, friends, let me tell you, I am persuaded it was not so unvaluable in the eyes of his Father as to cause it to be poured out in vain, in respect of any one soul.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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It is a frivolous studie, if a man list, but of unvaluable worth to such as can make use of it, and as Plato saith, the only studie the Lacedemonians reserved for themselves.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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True it is that a good name is unvaluable; and all the pelf in the world is not an equal ransom for it.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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And this is that unvaluable advantage which we reap from having such an high priest, as can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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