unvaluable

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adjective

Not valuable; having little value.

First used 17th c.Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveunvaluable (comparative more unvaluable, superlative most unvaluable)

comparative more unvaluable · superlative most unvaluable

  1. rareNot valuable; having little value.First known use 17th c.

    Because if they never think about you, that means you have never made yourself valuable or unvaluable. You have become a jack of too many trades. So you master nothing.

    2024, Michael Ojugo, Clement Ojugo, Destined for Greatness

    Synonyms: junky, nonvaluable, two-bit, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking

  2. obsoleteInvaluable; beyond price.First known use 16th–18th c.

    I kon him thanks that he hath had the hap to chuse, and knowledge to cull-out so worthy a worke, and a booke so fit to the purpose, therewith to make so unvaluable a present unto his Countrie.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: priceless, inestimable, without price, invaluable, precious, priceless, unpriced, without price

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishvalue
  9. Englishvaluable
  10. Englishunvaluable

From un- + valuable. Piecewise doublet of invaluable.

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