PRICELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does priceless mean? 

• PRICELESS (adjective)
  The adjective PRICELESS has 1 sense:

1. having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth

  Familiarity information: PRICELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth

Synonyms:

invaluable; priceless

Similar:

valuable (having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange)

Derivation:

pricelessness (the positive quality of being precious and beyond value)

 Context examples 

Think of the priceless gift of such a heart as yours, of such a love as yours!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I will attire my Jane in satin and lace, and she shall have roses in her hair; and I will cover the head I love best with a priceless veil."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Great was the labour; priceless the reward.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I do not hope that any love and duty I may render in return, will ever make me worthy of your priceless confidence; but with all this knowledge fresh upon me, I can lift my eyes to this dear face, revered as a father's, loved as a husband's, sacred to me in my childhood as a friend's, and solemnly declare that in my lightest thought I have never wronged you; never wavered in the love and the fidelity I owe you!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As to the straw hat and blue ribbons which was on the top of the curls, if I could only have hung it up in my room in Buckingham Street, what a priceless possession it would have been!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)