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/vˈæljəbəl/ /vˈæljubəl/ Listen

adjective

Valuable adj.

Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.

Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion.

Valuable consideration (Law), an equivalent or compensation having value given for a thing purchased, as money, marriage, services, etc.

noun

Valuable n. A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; used mostly in the plural. "The food and valuables they offer to the gods."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Valuable" Quotes from Famous Books

... dairyman is a more valuable citizen in the long run than a prospector or miner, but he does not so easily appeal to the imagination. To wade irrigating ditches, hoe in hand, is not incompatible with the noblest manhood, but it is none the less true that ...

— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... marry the Squire? She was poor, but she had qualities much more valuable to the Squire than money. She could rescue him from debt, put his estate on a paying footing, restore Mannering, rebuild the village, and all the time keep him happy by her sympathy with and understanding of his classical ...

— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... running over their advertisement here, where they give a special puff of the publication in general and of several things in particular, and I saw—here they speak of 'A tale of thrilling interest by Mrs. Eliza Lothbury, unsurpassed,' and so forth and so forth; 'another valuable communication from Mr. Charleston, whose first acute and discriminating paper all our readers will remember; the beginning of a new tale from the infallibly graceful pen of Miss Delia Lawriston, we are sure it will be so and so; '"The wind's voices," by our new correspondent "Hugh," ...

— Queechy • Susan Warner

... repeated the name a dozen times, snorting and choking with appreciation of the joke. Next morning, they met again, and went together to look at the shop. Here Allchin made great play with his valuable qualities. He pointed out the errors and negligencies of the late Boxon, declared it a scandal that a business such as this should have been allowed to fall off, and was full of ingenious ideas for a brilliant opening. Among other forms of inexpensive advertisement, ...

— Will Warburton • George Gissing

... the Apes had a man's figure and a man's brain, but he was an ape by training and environment. His brain told him that the chest contained something valuable, or the men would not have hidden it. His training had taught him to imitate whatever was new and unusual, and now the natural curiosity, which is as common to men as to apes, prompted him to open the chest and examine ...

— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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