valuable
part of speech
adjective (valuable, more valuable, most valuable); noun (valuables — plural)
meaning for a pupil
1) Valuable means worth a lot of money. tree →
2) Very useful or important: valuable advice, valuable time. tree →
3) (noun, plural) Valuables are small things you own that are worth a lot, like jewellery or phones. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in everyday life and safety: keep valuables safe, do not leave them in view in a car. In stories: treasure is valuable. In maths and money problems: the more valuable coin. Phrases: "valuable lesson", "valuable time".
examples
- Quite recently, and since the completion of my translation, my attention has been drawn to a version by Isidor Kalisch, in which he has reproduced many of the valuable annotations of Meyer. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Gold is valuable. tree →
- Her old ring is very valuable. tree →
- Thank you for your valuable help. tree →
- I learned a valuable lesson. tree →
- Keep your valuables in a locker. tree →
- Which coin is the most valuable? tree →
- Water is more valuable than gold in the desert. tree →
- Inside, in the hall, valuable oil paintings were hanging on the walls. tree →
note
Opposite: worthless. Trap: "invaluable" means extremely valuable, not "not valuable". Spelling: value → valuable (drop the e).
In the corpora
- Money or something valuable found at school should go to a teacher or the office.
- In Europa Universalis 5 sugar is a valuable trade good from Caribbean colonies and grain is the plain good of many locations.
- Every life, big or small, is valuable and worth caring for.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «valuable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.