INVALUABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invaluable mean? 

• INVALUABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INVALUABLE has 1 sense:

1. having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth

  Familiarity information: INVALUABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVALUABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth

Synonyms:

invaluable; priceless

Similar:

valuable (having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange)

Derivation:

invaluableness (the positive quality of being precious and beyond value)

 Context examples 

He quickly became a clerk, and he made himself invaluable.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the case of GSM, connecting people is invaluable nowadays in our society.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

“I’m sure, Watson, a week in the country will be invaluable to you,” he remarked.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This invaluable friend was a very young woman, and very lately married.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Harriet is worth a hundred such—And for a wife—a sensible man's wife—it is invaluable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And she, said Mrs Smith, besides nursing me most admirably, has really proved an invaluable acquaintance.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This finding could make an invaluable contribution to designing new therapies to combat the disease.

(Scientists identify how the exosomes of the parasite responsible for Chagas disease affect heart cells, University of Granada)

Such information could be invaluable in helping inform measures to reduce people’s exposure to potentially dangerous carcinogens.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)

Miss Eyre has been an invaluable companion to me, and a kind and careful teacher to Adele.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)