Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not prized or valued; unappreciated.
- adj. Not appraised or assayed: an unvalued gemstone.
- adj. Obsolete Inestimable; invaluable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not valued; not prized; neglected.
- 2. Inestimable; not to be valued.
- Not estimated; not having the value set; not appraised: as, an estate unvalued.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not valued; not appraised
- adj. Not considered; disregarded; valueless; as.
- adj. obsolete Having inestimable value; invaluable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not valued; not appraised; hence, not considered; disregarded; valueless.
- adj. obsolete Having inestimable value; invaluable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having value that is not acknowledged
Etymologies
- un- + valued (Wiktionary)
Examples
“unvalued' for 'invaluable,' etc.; and Shakespeare has 'unavoided' for”
“A: I firmly believe in balance to achieve a healthy lifestyle and have found that disconnecting from technology allows me to really appreciate things in life that typically go unvalued.”
The Wall Street Journal: Getting Inside the Mind of a Hacker
“In fact, informants suggested that offering spirit forces what amounted to "junk" or unwanted or unvalued items was offensive to them. back”
“Both the supervisor and the supervised should feel valued at all times as employee turnover may result when any feels unvalued.”
“Other means of paying the debt are either inflation (debasement of the value of money), or economic growth - which is falsely measured because it is based on undervalued exhaustible resources and unvalued pollution.”
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth
“Boyle's performance gives a compelling peek into that universal and ageless theme about the person so unique, that they are shunned and go into exile feeling misunderstood, different, unvalued.”
Dr. Cara Barker: When Dreams Become More Powerful Than Bullies
“It was decided at the workshop that research would be done to evaluate women's unvalued labour in domestic and care-giving roles.”
“But the majority of the mad, untreatable and unvalued, remained incarcerated in the great asylums, which were little more than prisons designed as hospitals.”
“But by most U.S. estimates, the currency is still grossly unvalued, giving Chinese manufacturers an unfair advantage in U.S. markets.”
“What you’re saying is that blacks are so unvalued to Corporate America a neocon view by the way that they can be replaced by people who are in this country illegally.”
Think Progress » Bush: I’m Sending More Troops To Iraq No Matter What Congress Does
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