value

Meanings

Noun

• The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
• The degree of importance given to something.
• That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
• The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
• The relative duration of a musical note.
• The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
• Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
• Precise meaning; import.
• The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
• Esteem; regard.
• Valour; valew.

Verb

• To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
• To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
• To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
• To hold dear.

Related

Similar words

• valence
• appreciate
• assess
• esteem
• prize
• rate
• respect
• treasure
• valuate
• worthen

Opposite words

• belittle
• derogate
• despise
• disesteem
• disrespect
• undervalue

Narrower meaning words

• added value
• economic value
• face value
• intrinsic value
• lvalue
• market value
• note value
• par value
• rvalue
• time value

Origin

• From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valeō ("be strong, be worth"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- ("to be strong").