Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not prized or valued; unappreciated.
- adjective Not appraised or assayed.
- adjective Obsolete Inestimable; invaluable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not valued; not prized; neglected.
- 2. Inestimable; not to be valued.
- Not estimated; not having the value set; not appraised: as, an estate unvalued.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not valued; not appraised; hence, not considered; disregarded; valueless.
- adjective obsolete Having inestimable value; invaluable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not valued; not appraised
- adjective Not considered; disregarded; valueless; as,
- adjective obsolete Having inestimable value; invaluable.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having value that is not acknowledged
Etymologies
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Examples
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'unvalued' for 'invaluable,' etc.; and Shakespeare has 'unavoided' for
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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A: I firmly believe in balance to achieve a healthy lifestyle and have found that disconnecting from technology allows me to really appreciate things in life that typically go unvalued.
Getting Inside the Mind of a Hacker Elizabeth Garone 2010
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In fact, informants suggested that offering spirit forces what amounted to "junk" or unwanted or unvalued items was offensive to them. back
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A: I firmly believe in balance to achieve a healthy lifestyle and have found that disconnecting from technology allows me to really appreciate things in life that typically go unvalued.
Getting Inside the Mind of a Hacker Elizabeth Garone 2010
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A: I firmly believe in balance to achieve a healthy lifestyle and have found that disconnecting from technology allows me to really appreciate things in life that typically go unvalued.
Getting Inside the Mind of a Hacker Elizabeth Garone 2010
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Boyle's performance gives a compelling peek into that universal and ageless theme about the person so unique, that they are shunned and go into exile feeling misunderstood, different, unvalued.
Dr. Cara Barker: When Dreams Become More Powerful Than Bullies 2009
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Both the supervisor and the supervised should feel valued at all times as employee turnover may result when any feels unvalued.
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Other means of paying the debt are either inflation (debasement of the value of money), or economic growth - which is falsely measured because it is based on undervalued exhaustible resources and unvalued pollution.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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It was decided at the workshop that research would be done to evaluate women's unvalued labour in domestic and care-giving roles.
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But the majority of the mad, untreatable and unvalued, remained incarcerated in the great asylums, which were little more than prisons designed as hospitals.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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