invaluable

CEFRB2

/ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Extremely useful or important, especially because it cannot be replaced.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Not valuable; valueless; worthless.

Examples

  • If it weren't for your invaluable help, everything would be ruined.

  • The Internet is an invaluable source of information.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ɪnˈvæljəbl̩/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Having great or incalculable value.

More examples

In context

  • Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn. It was degrading to have to depend so thoroughly on a person who had been educated at a state university.

  • The money I have received is so invaluable a sum that I have forborne as yet to pay it in, and am heartily sorry that I cannot better advance His Majesty's service.

  • It would be an interesting, and far from an invaluable labour, to trace the history of the murrains, or cattle diseases of former days, and there causes and effects.

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Origin

adjective

From in- + valuable (compare priceless).