VALUED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valued mean? 

• VALUED (adjective)
  The adjective VALUED has 2 senses:

1. (usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind

2. held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature

  Familiarity information: VALUED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALUED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind

Context example:

triple-valued

Similar:

quantitative (expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature

Synonyms:

precious; valued

Context example:

precious memories

Similar:

worthy (having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable)

 Context examples 

It will feel delicious to be so valued.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

How could she have exposed herself to such ill opinion in any one she valued!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

That was the way Lizzie valued him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a letter, in short, which she would not but have had for the world, and which could never be valued enough.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she valued beyond that of any other person.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A data type comprised of a set of consecutive low valued integers of an ordered base data type.

(Low Interval Integer Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

We were affectionate playfellows during childhood, and, I believe, dear and valued friends to one another as we grew older.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He valued their kindness beyond any thing, and his greatest happiness was in being with them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The first instance or original report should always be valued as '1'.

(Document Version Number Text, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Although meteorites are valued samples from asteroids, they are rarely recovered immediately after they fall to Earth.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)