invaluable — ozdic

Collocations

8

1

(adj.)

VERBS

be, prove | become | remain

make sb/sth

Her experience as a nurse made her invaluable to the hospital during the emergency.

find sth

She found the advice from her mentor invaluable when starting her new job.

ADV

absolutely, quite

PREP

for

Regular exercise is invaluable for maintaining good health throughout your life.

to

Her advice proved invaluable to the team when they faced the difficult project.

Definitions

adj

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

Not 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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual wor

priceless

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

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

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02

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

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03

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.

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04

The Internet is an invaluable source of information.

Tatoeba · #65745

05

If it weren't for your invaluable help, everything would be ruined.

Tatoeba · #70761

06

This experience will be invaluable as a way of improving the way I study English.

Tatoeba · #241965

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, invaluable is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.