Value

Quick meaning: Value is a noun meaning The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.

Meaning

The quality that renders something desirable or valuable; worth.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
2. (often plural) That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
3. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
4. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
5. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
6. Precise meaning; import.
7. (mathematics, physics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.

Example Sentences

family values

He does not share his parents' values.

There is tremendous value in a good education.

An abacus is of little value when you have an electronic calculator.

Word Forms

• values
• valuing
• valued

Synonyms for value

Depending on context, synonyms include valence, worth, appreciate, assess, evaluate, valuate.

Antonyms for value

Common opposites include misappraise, undervalue, despise, disesteem, contemn, despect.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include respect, esteem, appraise, evaluate, assess, rate.

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