Priceless vs Priced - What's the difference?
priceless | priced |
So precious as not to be sold at any price.
Treasured; held in high regard.
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(informal) Hilariously amusing.
(obsolete) Of no value; worthless.
(price)
The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
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Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
As an adjective priceless
is so precious as not to be sold at any price.As a verb priced is
(price).priceless
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless .}}
priced
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Verb
(head)price
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Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs