invaluable

adjectiveattested in dialogue

//ɪnˈvælju(ə)bl̩//
//ɪnˈvæljəbl̩//

Having great or incalculable value.

adjective

1
Having great or incalculable value.
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.
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.
2
obsoleteNot valuable; valueless; worthless.
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.

Etymology

From in- + valuable (compare priceless). Piecewise doublet of unvaluable.

Forms

comparative: more invaluable
superlative: most invaluable

intuition · Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational…invade · To move into.invalid · Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable, or appropriate.

invaluable · Having great or incalculable value.

invasion · A military action consisting of a large armed force of one…invent · To design a new process or mechanism.invented · Fictional, made up, imaginary.

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