Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of inestimable value; priceless: invaluable paintings; invaluable help.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Above or beyond valuation; too valuable for exact estimate; inestimable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of great value; costly, precious, priceless.
- adj. Very useful.
- adj. Beyond calculable or appraisable value; of inestimable worth
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth
Examples
“PRIME MINISTER and has been very busy demanding what he calls our invaluable suffrages buttonholed me the other day outside the tripe shop and commenced to tell me all the wonderful things that we dogs would get if we only elected a strong Coalition Government -- better biscuits, larger kennels, equal rabbits for all and I don't know what else.”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919
“The former were very profuse in their compliments and thanks for what they termed our invaluable assistance; having tendered which they manifested a disposition to resume their former status on board.”
The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba
“Attendees will learn about the latest issues facing the baby boomer market and gain invaluable insights by connecting with a broad spectrum of experts who have unique perspectives on the baby boomer generation.”
“The entries often contain invaluable information concerning daily events, dates of composition, publication appearances and log entries from Jack and Charmian's various voyages.”
“Several of Mark Twains books are bound to survive, because they contain invaluable social history.”
“And Tib rises out of that little domestic struggle, covered with glory and crowned with respect; her price so infinitely beyond rubies, that "invaluable" is the only term that can be applied to her; and accordingly Dr. McNab, Mr. Malcolm, and the poor little suffering feverish Dagon himself, unanimously agree that she is invaluable; and the slight rustle of her voluminous silk gown, as she moves across the room to fetch the bottle of colchicum, with the soft slow heavy tread of the elephant, is music to her Dagon's ears.”
“You know, you have to understand that even the IG pointed out, these are tools that have been described as invaluable in the war on terror.”
“And it just -- the people gave me something that I find invaluable, which is hope and love and joy.”
“On an occasion like this it is natural also to recall the invaluable interest you have shown in Swedish literature, a token of friendship which, in turn, has found a response in the desire of our Swedish writers to translate your work.”
“Everyone, mighty writer Thomas Rees aka the invaluable d.l. Trees delegates some of his writing ability to penning articles for the mag XLR8R, and go here to find out how things of interest sit with him, won't you?”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘invaluable’.
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The Bucolic Abattoir
Words which, when spoken, suggest something other than their real meaning.
bucolic, fungible, brouhaha, narthex, restive, inflammable, invaluable, raze, pulchritude, noisome, fatuous, terrific and 21 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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writing first chapter
revolve, vital, necessity, depict, archery, indegenous, native, lacrosse, similarly, recess, composition, indicator and 91 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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synantonyms
Words that should be antonyms, but aren't.
Some say pseudantonym, but I don't like to.ravel, unravel, flammable, inflammable, thaw, unthaw, worm, deworm, color, discolor, valuable, invaluable and 12 more...
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Alphabet Soup (?): Round 1
Congratulations to uselessness who, in no uncertain terms, sent this moderator back to school.
vile, lively, livery, live, liver, virile, virgil, villain, vilify, evil, vigilante, ventilation and 45 more...
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mysterbey's Words
omit, capacious, enclosure, dusty, ignominious, pensive, pliable, taint, complacency, wabi sabi, esperance, cerebellum and 62 more...
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15 lovely words
comercial crops, steam, hang out, parachute, citrus, submarine, plagiarism, galaxy, fanaticism, ditch, mtropolis, invaluable and 8 more...
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