value
The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
Noun
- The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.
- There is tremendous value in a good education.
- An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.
- United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half. - 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC...
Synonyms: worth
- The degree of importance given to something.
- The value of my children's happiness is second only to that of my wife.
- Okay, for the record, and this is probably obvious, those three departments do actually do things of value, assuming that you find Pell grants, mortgage insurance, low-income housing programs, the National Weather...
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- He does not share his parents' values.
- family values
- WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between...
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- The value of the stolen painting is estimated to be around four million pounds.
- An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value. - 1825, John Ramsay McCulloch,...
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price. - 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […]...
- The relative duration of a musical note.
- The value of a crotchet is twice that of a quaver.
- The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- When pigments of equal value are mixed together, the resulting color will be a darker value. This is the result of subtraction. - 2006, Edith Anderson Feisner, Colour: How to Use Colour in Art and Design:
- Shadows and light move very quickly when you are painting on location. Use Cobalt Blue to quickly establish the painting's values. - 2010, Rose Edin, Dee Jepsen, Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light:
- Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- The exact value of pi cannot be represented in decimal notation.
- Precise meaning; import.
- the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
- Yet that learned and diligent annotator has , in a following note , shown his sense of the value of a passage of Livy , marking , in a few words , most strongly the desolation of Italy under the Roman republic -...
- The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- The vein carries good values.
- the values on the hanging walls
- Esteem; regard.
- The French have a high value for them ; and I confess they are often what they call delicate - 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great. - a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify...
- Valour.
- Who ſoone prepard to field, his ſword forth drew, / And him with equall valew counteruayld: […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie,...
Related: valew
Origin
From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Italic *walēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”).
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Related
valuable worthless esteem cherish appreciate respect revere price use utility instrumentality benefit profit fertility productivity yield quality excellence scarcity demand exchange honor treasure gold
Derived
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Verb
- To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.
- I will have the family jewels valued by a professional.
- The property has been valued at six million pounds.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for...
Synonyms: appreciate assess evaluate valuate worthen appraise apprise apprize esteem judge price prize rate value weigh
Antonyms: misappraise undervalue
- To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
- Gold was valued highly among the Romans.
- I value his advice.
Synonyms: esteem honor look up to respect idolize lay store by prize hallow put store by put store in rate regard revere set store by value venerate worthy
Antonyms: despise disesteem contemn despect disrespect disdain look down on misrespect scorn spurn
- To hold dear; to cherish.
- I value these old photographs.
Synonyms: treasure prize appreciate bedear cherish esteem hold dear think much of value
Antonyms: despise