non-treasure

A form of nontreasure — Something or someone that is not a treasure.

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Meanings

nounnon-treasure (countable and uncountable, plural non-treasures)

plural non-treasures

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of nontreasure.

    Several of our non-treasures had to be dismissed within days for intolerable personal filthiness (there was the celebrated case of the louse on the table-napkin. . .) or irredeemable incompetence, or both.

    1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 90
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    Even in the normative tradition of recent centuries, core treasure liturgies are enhanced by ritual texts composed by means of ordinary, non-treasure authorship and yet these become regarded as treasure as well.

    2016, Daniel Hirshberg, Remembering the Lotus-Born

Origin

From non- + treasure.

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APA

non-treasure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-treasure

MLA

“non-treasure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-treasure. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “non-treasure,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-treasure.

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