Meanings
- not comparableNot having been valued or appraised.
an unvalued estate
- not comparableNot considered to be of worth; deemed valueless.
1 more example
c. 1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii For he himself is subject to his birth; / He may not, as unvalued persons do, / Carve for himself, for on his choice depends / The safety and health of this whole state, / And therefore must his choice be circumscribed / Unto the voice and yielding of that body / Whereof he is the head.
- not comparableobsoleteHaving inestimable value; invaluable.
Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued, Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii1 more example
Mongst which there in a siluer dish did ly / twoo golden apples of vnualewd price: / far passing those which Hercules came by, / or those which Atalanta did entice.
1595, Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet LXXVII” in Amoretti or Sonnets
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving value that is not acknowledged
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishvalued
- Englishunvalued
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