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invaluable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈvæljəbl̩/
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/

Etymology

From in- + valuable (compare priceless). Piecewise doublet of unvaluable.

Meanings

1. Having great or incalculable value.
   • You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!—always wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody! If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers. 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
   • Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn. It was degrading to have to depend so thoroughly on a person who had been educated at a state university. 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, page 181:
2. (obsolete) Not valuable; valueless; worthless.
   • It would be an interesting, and far from an invaluable labour, to trace the history of the murrains, or cattle diseases of former days, and there causes and effects. 1866, Thomas Wright, The Intellectual Observer:
   • The money I have received is so invaluable a sum that I have forborne as yet to pay it in, and am heartily sorry that I cannot better advance His Majesty's service. 1640, Treaty of Ripon:

Forms

Antonyms

precious · worthy · valuable · prizable · worthly · treasurous · estimable · worth every penny · valuable · crucial

Coordinates

unvaluable · screwy · nonvaluable · draffy · not worth a cent · ineffectual · shitey · two-bit · chaffy · trinkety · not worth a brass farthing · bastardly · no-account · not worth hell room · pissass · wutless · valueless · blown · goodless · invaluable · not worth a dime · putid · not worth a farthing · sixpenny · nonvaluable · not worth a Continental · scabbed · suckworthy · cullionly · no good / no-good · good-for-nothing · low-value · punk · good-for-naught · cruddy · not worth a nickel · strawlike · junky · naughty · tenth-rate · not worth a penny · of no value · rubbishy · not worth a cress · not worth a damn · sorry-ass · draffish · unvaluable · rubbishly · shitty-ass · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · dreckish · worthless · mucid · tripy · duffing · cocking · not worth a plug nickel · garbagey · crapalicious · cacky · for the birds · worth nothing · not worth a whistle · scummy · not worth salt · unappreciated · nought · toshy · fucking · mouldy · shand · jabberwocky · drecky · triobolar · vain · shit · shitstained · not worth a curse

Deriveds

invaluability · invaluably · invaluableness

Hypernyms

worthy · valuable · worthly · treasurous · precious · prizable · crucial · estimable · worth every penny · valuable

Relateds

unpriceable · inestimable · revaluation · incalculable · evaluation · valuation

Synonyms

floccinaucinihilipilificatious · putid · draffy · nought · valueless · cruddy · rubbishy · dreckish · wutless · duffing · not worth a penny · invaluable · draffish · precious · nonvaluable · naughty · inestimable · sorry-ass · cullionly · unvaluable · sixpenny · no-account · vain · goodless · unvaluable · not worth a farthing · not worth a brass farthing · shitey · not worth salt · garbagey · without price · valueless · good-for-nothing · rubbishly · of no value · blown · not worth a plug nickel · bastardly · not worth a cent · fucking · tripy · junky · screwy · not worth a cress · unvaluable · not worth a Continental · not worth hell room · shit · no good / no-good · chaffy · not worth a curse · not worth a nickel · not worth a dime · worthless · worth one's weight in gold · punk · not worth a damn · unpriced · invaluable · no-good · pissass · cacky · for the birds · drecky · mucid · strawlike · priceless · trinkety · mouldy · toshy · tenth-rate · scummy · ineffectual · worth nothing · triobolar · suckworthy · priceless · crapalicious · jabberwocky · cocking · shitty-ass · unappreciated · two-bit · not worth a whistle · scabbed · shitstained · shand · good-for-naught

Translations (55)

pl nieoceniony (of great value) · ml അമൂല്യ (of inestimable worth) · hy անգին (of great value) · cmn 無價的 /无价的 (very useful) · kk бағасыз (of great value) · hy անգնահատելի (of inestimable worth) · pl nieoceniony (very useful) · it impagabile (of inestimable worth) · no uvurderlig (very useful) · it eccezionale (very useful) · bg безценен (of great value) · cmn 無價的 /无价的 (of inestimable worth) · fi korvaamaton (very useful) · it inestimabile (of inestimable worth) · pl bezcenny (of inestimable worth) · el πολύτιμος (of great value) · es inestimable (of great value) · ml വിലമതിക്കാനാവാത്ത (of inestimable worth) · pl drogocenny (of great value) · ru бесце́нный (of great value) · ru неоценимый (of great value) · it enorme (of great value) · bg неоценим (of inestimable worth) · fi korvaamaton (of great value) · pl bezcenny (of great value) · oc invalorable (of great value) · es invaluable (of great value) · hi अनमोल (of great value) · es valioso (of great value) · cs nedocenitelný (of great value) · fi korvaamaton (of inestimable worth) · no uvurderlig (of great value) · pt inavaliável (of inestimable worth) · hy անգնահատելի (very useful) · oc inestimable (of great value) · uk неоціне́нний (of great value) · ml അമൂല്യമായ (of inestimable worth) · ml വിലമതിക്കാനാവാത്ത (of great value) · ml അമൂല്യ (of great value) · it immenso (of great value) · it impareggiabile (of great value) · it senza prezzo (of great value) · cs nedocenitelný (very useful) · es invalorable (of great value) · fr inestimable (of great value) · pt inestimável (of great value) · it prezioso (of great value) · cmn 無法估價的 /无法估价的 (of great value) · pl bezcenny (very useful) · it incalcolabile (of inestimable worth) · el ανεκτίμητος (of great value) · pl drogocenny (very useful) · uk безці́нний (of great value) · ja かけがえのない (of great value) · fi korvaamattoman arvokas (of inestimable worth)