Word Meanings - VALUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power
Additional info about word: VALUE
Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. 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. M'Culloch. Value is the power to command commodities generally. A. L. Chapin Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange. F. A. Walker. His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price. Dryden. Note: In political economy, value is often distinguished as intrinsic and exchangeable. Intrinsic value is the same as utility or adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants of men. Exchangeable value is that in an article or product which disposes individuals to give for it some quantity of labor, or some other article or product obtainable by labor; as, pure air has an intrinsic value, but generally not an exchangeable value. 3. Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument Mitford. 4. Esteem; regard. Dryden. My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great Bp. Burnet. (more info) 1. The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance. Ye are all physicians of no value. Job xiii. 4. Ye are of more value than many sparrows. Matt. x. 31. Cæsar is well acquainted with your virtue, And therefore sets this value on your life. Addison. Before events shall have decided on the value of the measures. Marshall.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VALUE)
- Account
- Narration
- report
- rehearsal
- story
- statement
- narrative
- recital
- relation
- description
- motive
- value
- importance
- advantage
- ground
- reason
- profit
- Account Deem
- esteem
- consider
- regard
- hold
- judge
- rate
- estimate
- reckon
- explain
- solve
- Appraise
- Value
- survey
- price
- Appreciate
- Esteem
- recognize
- acknowledge
- respect
- prize
- Cherish
- Foster
- nurse
- promote
- nourish
- nurture
- comfort
- protect
- entertain
- encourage
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VALUE)
- Disesteem
- misestimate
- mystify
- understate
- undervalue
- perplex
- darken
- Miss
- overlook
- disregard
- despise
- dislike
- contemn
- hate
- loathe
- misconsider
- misconceive
- misjudge
- Silence
- hush
- suppress
- misreport
- misrepresent
- miarelate
- falsify
- Overlook
- dishonor
- Miscompute
- disesteem
- vilipend
- underrate
- underestimate
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to VALUE)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - MISJUDGE
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - CONSIDERINGLY
With consideration or deliberation. - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - MISCOMPUTE
To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne. - APPRECIATE
a price, appraise; ad + pretiare to prize, pretium price. Cf. 1. To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon. 3. To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed - CHERISHMENT
Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - PRICE
to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - UNCONSIDERED
Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak. - PREJUDGE
To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a