valuable
having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
having qualities worthy of respect, admiration, or esteem: a valuable friend.
of considerable use, service, or importance: valuable information.
Usually valuables. articles of considerable value, as of personal property, especially those of relatively small size: They locked their valuables in the hotel safe.
Origin of valuable
1synonym study For valuable
Opposites for valuable
Other words from valuable
- val·u·a·ble·ness, noun
- val·u·a·bly, adverb
- non·val·u·a·ble, adjective
- o·ver·val·u·a·ble, adjective
- o·ver·val·u·a·ble·ness, noun
- o·ver·val·u·a·bly, adverb
- un·val·u·a·ble, adjective
- un·val·u·a·bly, adverb
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How to use valuable in a sentence
The Public Schools are very numerous, and so well supported as to render them valuably and most extensively useful.
Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway | James DrakeThe result is, that farmyard manure will be, as a rule, more valuably supplemented by phosphoric acid than by potash.
Manures and the principles of manuring | Charles Morton AikmanThe discrepancy in testimony is more valuably instructive than certain information on the subject in dispute would have been.
A Decade of Italian Women, v. II (of 2) | T. Adolphus TrollopeLady Swiggs has not a doubt that light might be valuably reflected over this heathen world.
An Outcast | F. Colburn AdamsMr. Eastman served the college most valuably for several years at this period as its secretary.
History of Linn County Iowa | Luther A. Brewer
British Dictionary definitions for valuable
/ (ˈvæljʊəbəl) /
having considerable monetary worth
of considerable importance or quality: a valuable friend; valuable information
able to be valued
(usually plural) a valuable article of personal property, esp jewellery
Derived forms of valuable
- valuableness, noun
- valuably, adverb
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