unvaluable
English
Etymology
Adjective
unvaluable (comparative more unvaluable, superlative most unvaluable)
- (rare) Not valuable; having little value. [from 17th c.]
- Synonym: nonvaluable
- Coordinate terms: valueless, worthless; inexpensive
- 2024, Michael Ojugo, Clement Ojugo, Destined for Greatness
- 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.
- (obsolete) Invaluable; beyond price. [16th–18th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 4, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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.