valued
Americanadjective
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highly regarded or esteemed.
a valued friend.
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estimated; appraised.
jewels valued at $100,000.
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having value of a specified kind.
a triple-valued offer.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of valued
Explanation
Anything valued is very important — it's admired or treasured. If one of the most valued members of your softball team is out sick, everyone will miss her — and you risk losing the game. The adjective valued comes from value, and it essentially means "considered to have value." Your valued possessions may literally be the most expensive items you own, or they may simply be things with sentimental value, like the photo of your grandparents or your dad's old watch. Marketers use this word all the time, often referring to valued customers or valued business.
Example Sentences
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Valued at $15.5 billion, the company trades at 35 times 2025 adjusted net income; founder Larry Gies holds a 15% stake.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
Valued at roughly $380 billion, Anthropic is legally required to balance profit-making with advancing the company’s public benefit of “responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
The way you approached this dinner “didn’t set anyone up for success,” says Anna Goldfarb, author of “Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026
Valued at something like the average hourly wage and added to typical holiday spending, the implied resource cost of Christmas gift-giving, by my estimate, is roughly $1,500 to $2,300 per shopper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
In the whole, inclusive of other goods, such as muslins, velvets, &c., &c., equal to above, 40,000,000 arschines of fabrics Valued at 7,500,000 silver rubles.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
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