(a.) Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable.
(a.) Of no value; worthless.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(3) The indices of brain metabolism such as cerebral blood flow (rCBF), cerebral metabolic rate of glucose or oxygen (CMRG, CMRO2) are noninvasively measured by PET offering priceless information for diagnosing brain dysfunction such as ischemia, degeneration, psychosis, or epilepsy.
(4) In the 1900s, several hundred tonnes of soil were removed from the cave to open it up as a tourist attraction, a move that may have destroyed priceless ancient remains.
(5) The city's huge and priceless cultural heritage, a legacy of its medieval status as an African equivalent to Oxford or Cambridge, complete with bustling university, was little known in the outside world, with even the French, Mali's colonial rulers until 1960, carrying away some manuscripts to museums but doing little to unearth the full story behind them.
(6) We believe that Roger can best be honoured by redoubling our commitment to protect elephants and our priceless wildlife heritage.
(7) It is almost impossible to set fixed prices for such priceless items as human organs.
(8) However, if C5's Big Brother revamp produces a new Nasty Nick, or priceless moments like George Galloway pretending to be a cat, then viewers will return and the newspapers will have little option but to cover it.
(9) Hong Kong today is as buoyant and confident as ever, comfortable in the knowledge that China's growth is sufficient to help sustain both itself and Shanghai, and aware too that the rule of law gives it priceless advantages.
(10) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(11) Newcastle’s only meaningful attack of the entire 90 minutes handed them a priceless away victory, when Ayoze Pérez fired his third goal of the season past the Bournemouth goalkeeper, Adam Federici, who should have done better.
(12) Nevertheless, Mourinho’s players return with the priceless commodity of match minutes in their legs and double training sessions in their lungs.
(13) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
(14) But that economic competence rating is priceless all the same.
(15) By his nearly inborn knowledge of anatomy, tissue consistency and texture, the surgeon has a priceless advantage to learn, practice and teach endoscopy.
(16) His double in Tbilisi in his manager’s first competitive game – he also scored in the 62-year-old’s first friendly against Latvia in November last year – increased his relatively meagre tally significantly, and the second of them proved priceless.
(17) In addition, the cost in human suffering is priceless.
(18) Earlier this year, as he and co-stars addressed the media to promote the film The Monuments Men – which tells the story of how a team of allied men and women helped recover priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis – Clooney took the audience by surprise when he said the sculptures belonged to Athens.
(19) Anyone looking for simple, rustic, affordable experiences in priceless locations will find they’re in luck.
(20) All the fans have been amazing and proud to have shared priceless moments February 3, 2015 The decision is the latest in a series of changes at the club.
Valueless
Definition:
(a.) Being of no value; having no worth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The alleged contrast between the descriptive clinical (and according to a German author like Jaspers literary and superficial) French psychiatry and the scientific theoretical (and for the most aggressive French authors valueless) German one was a recurrent theme.
(2) Antibiotics are valueless in decreasing the incidence of local septic complications, such as empyema or pericholecystic abscess formation.
(3) Guy Foster, head of research at Brewin Dolphin, says gold is a curious asset: “It is supposed to be a store of value, but by conventional investment metrics it is almost valueless.” You can invest in exchange traded funds such as the SPDR Gold Trust, which tracks the spot price of gold; a gold miner such as Randgold Resources; or buy bullion or coins.
(4) The semantic differential scheme consisted (apart from six distractor pairs) of the following semantic pairs: (a) negative-positive, (b) valueless-valuable, (c) bad-good, (d) onesided-manysided, (e) unimportant-important, and (f) stupid-smart.
(5) Pretreatment with heparin was virtually valueless, while methylprednisolone offered temporary protection.
(6) It is therefore suggested that bacteriostatic agents may be valueless for prophylaxis of bacterial endocarditis.
(7) Most indigenous trees in Africa coppice when cut, their stumps looking like tangled weeds and valueless scrub to the unknowing eye.
(8) The test is thus valueless for carrier detection, and reasons are given why it should be so.
(9) All of this would have been valueless if the series had been clumsy, but it wasn't.
(10) Forests have historically been seen as valueless, and forestry as backwards – neither of them worthy of inclusion in 'development' strategies, or of the usual set of policy instruments encouraging proper investment, such as tax incentives and appropriate credit.
(11) Weight-bearing activity has been commonly considered to be essential for the beneficial effects of exercise on the skeleton, and, therefore, swimming has been considered valueless in the maintenance of bone mass.
(12) If – eventually – the companies cannot, for the sake of the human race, be allowed to extract a great many of the assets they own, then many of those assets will in time become valueless.
(13) The positive gallium scintigraphy results were clinically rated as valuable, questionable or valueless according to their contribution to the diagnosis.
(14) And he talked about the importance of songs: "Songs that we are now being told are valueless, by self-proclaimed revolutionary freedom fighters, posing as Robin Hood.
(15) By contaminating the horn, you reduce the reward and the horn becomes a valueless product.
(16) Histologic typing is valueless in predicting tumor behavior.
(17) Foundation trusts will have an agenda to maximise income, even though that means they will carry out valueless activities in order to do so.
(18) For marrows or mild or moderately reduced cellularity the subjective estimate of cellularity was almost valueless both in terms of accuracy and reproducibility.
(19) Financial analysts, including Mark Carney the governor of the Bank of England , have warned that a carbon price will render many fossil fuel reserves valueless.
(20) Other historical findings are either valueless or should be used to reassure these usually anxious women.