invaluable

adj
/ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/

Etymology

From in- + valuable (compare priceless).

  1. derived from *h₂welh₁-
  2. derived from *walēō
  3. derived from valeō
  4. derived from value
  5. inherited from valew
  6. suffixed as valuable — “value + able
  7. prefixed as invaluable — “in + valuable

Definitions

  1. Having great or incalculable value.

    • 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.
  2. Not valuable

    Not valuable; valueless; worthless.

    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA