Meanings
comparative more unvaluable · superlative most unvaluable
- 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 GreatnessSynonyms: junky, nonvaluable, two-bit, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking
- 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 […], →OCLCSynonyms: priceless, inestimable, without price, invaluable, precious, priceless, unpriced, without price
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot valuable; having little value.
adjectiveInvaluable; beyond price.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishvalue
- Englishvaluable
- Englishunvaluable
From un- + valuable. Piecewise doublet of invaluable.
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