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value

value

1.3
How much something is worth in money or how useful it is
  • noun
  • /ˈvælju/
translation icon : valor
  • The value of the painting was appraised at over one million dollars.

Yes, college still has value in our lives.

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Examples

Synonyms

price
vsvalue
1.0

The amount of money you must pay to buy something

also includes usefulness importance and numeric or non monetary assessments
importance
vsvalue
663 1.0

A quality that makes something have great value or effect

applies to general assessment that can include numeric or monetary measurement
significance
vsvalue
194 3.8

How important something is or how much it matters

includes practical usefulness plus monetary or numeric amount
worth
vsvalue
149 1.5

A quality that makes something valuable or useful

includes monetary or numeric amounts as well as this quality
utility
vsvalue
63 3.5

The quality of being useful for a particular purpose

covers general merit and also numeric or monetary measures
face value
vsvalue
  • Specialized
41 4.4

A number printed on a ticket, coin, or bond that shows its official worth

focuses on true usefulness importance or monetary amount rather than printed numbers
market value
vsvalue
40 2.8

The price something sells for in a market with many buyers and sellers

is broader and also covers usefulness and measures outside sale environments
monetary value
vsvalue
7 3.3

How much money something is worth

is broader and also covers usefulness importance and measures beyond sale amounts
economic value
vsvalue
  • Specialized
5 3.3

The amount of money something is worth when it is bought or sold

is wider and also covers usefulness and importance beyond exchange equivalents
valuableness
vsvalue
6.6

The quality of having worth or importance

is neutral and used more broadly for usefulness or measurement

Antonyms

A state of not being important or having little effect

A feeling that you have no value or importance

Compounds

face value
  • Specialized
41 4.4

A number printed on a ticket, coin, or bond that shows its official worth

40 2.8

The price something sells for in a market with many buyers and sellers

19 3.7

A belief about what is right and wrong that guides how people act

18 5.2

A set of ideas about what is right and wrong that guides a person or group

Personal emotional worth of a thing because it reminds you of someone or a time

9 1.7

A product or service that is worth the money you pay because it works well

An opinion based on personal beliefs instead of facts

How much money something is worth

value-added tax
  • Specialized
6 4.0

A tax added to the price of goods and services each time a business makes or sells them

economic value
  • Specialized
5 3.3

The amount of money something is worth when it is bought or sold

book value
  • Specialized
4 4.7

The value of an asset on a company's balance sheet equals its cost minus how much it loses in value

absolute value
  • Specialized
2 3.9

How far a number is from zero and always zero or positive

expected value
  • Specialized
2 6.6

You find the average result you expect by adding each possible outcome times its chance

mean value
  • Specialized
1 3.4

The average of numbers found by adding them and dividing by how many there are

A sentence that says what a person or group thinks is important

median value
  • Specialized
1 3.6

The middle number in a list of numbers, or the average of the two middle ones when there are two

nominal value
  • Specialized
1 6.3

A price that a company writes on a share or bond, not the market price

A number that shows its size without a plus or minus sign

9.3

An official value for land and buildings used to calculate property tax

cash surrender value
  • Specialized
7.2

The amount an insurance company pays you when you cancel a life insurance policy early

clarke value
  • Specialized
9.9

Average amount of an element in the Earth's crust used by geologists

A belief that people hold for a long time and find hard to change

acid value
  • Specialized
7.7

A measure of how much free acid is in fat or oil

modal value
  • Specialized
6.5

The number or item that appears most often in a set of data

no-par-value stock
  • Specialized
7.9

A share that has no fixed value stated by the company

note value
  • Specialized
5.2

The length of a musical note shown by its symbol, like whole or quarter note

par value
  • Specialized
6.6

The value written on a share or bond that the company sets, not the price people pay

physical value
  • Specialized
8.6

The amount to replace a building or machine after subtracting wear and age

A number that shows how something compares to other things

Tesco Value
  • Archaic
3.5

A cheap brand of food and home items sold by Tesco with very simple packaging

time value
  • Specialized
7.9

The length of a musical note compared with other notes

A belief in small communities that favors tradition and close relationships

A person's or group's beliefs about right and wrong that guide their choices

How Valuable

value
1.3

Surface Forms

value singular
values plural

Etymology

Value comes from the old Latin root valere meaning 'to be strong' or 'to be worth', and it passed into English through French. So when we talk about the value of an object, we are saying how much it is 'worth' or how useful it is.