Invaluable Meaning
/ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving great or incalculable value.
adjNot valuable; valueless; worthless.
Sentence Examples
The Internet is an invaluable source of information.
If it weren't for your invaluable help, everything would be ruined.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The old map was ____ for finding the hidden treasure in the cave.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The mentor provided ____ advice that helped the young entrepreneur successfully launch his first business.
Word Origin & History
From in- + valuable (compare priceless).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!—always wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody! If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers."
— 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
"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."
— 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, page 181:
"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."
— 1640, Treaty of Ripon:
"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."
— 1866, Thomas Wright, The Intellectual Observer:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old map was ____ for finding the hidden treasure in the cave.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The mentor provided ____ advice that helped the young entrepreneur successfully launch his first business.