Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun valuable

1 sense of valuable

Sense 1
valuable -- (something of value; "all our valuables were stolen")
       => treasure, hoarded wealth -- (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; "the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies")

Antonyms of adj valuable

2 senses of valuable

Sense 1
valuable (vs. worthless) -- (having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "a valuable diamond")

worthless (vs. valuable) -- (lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler")
        => chaffy -- (value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow")
        => good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry -- (without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk")
        => manky -- (inferior and worthless)
        => negligible, paltry, trifling -- (not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter")
        => nugatory -- (of no real value; "a nugatory law")
        => otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted -- (serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence")
        => rubbishy, trashy -- (cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise")
        => tinpot (prenominal) -- (inferior (especially of a country's leadership); "he's a tinpot Hitler")
        => valueless -- (of no value)

Sense 2
valuable, worthful -- (having worth or merit or value; "a valuable friend"; "a good and worthful man")

INDIRECT (VIA worthy) -> unworthy -- (lacking in value or merit; "dispel a student whose conduct is deemed unworthy"; "unworthy of forgiveness")

Similarity of adj valuable

2 senses of valuable

Sense 1
valuable (vs. worthless) -- (having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "a valuable diamond")
       => blue-chip -- (extremely valuable; "Rembrandt is considered a blue-chip artist")
       => invaluable, priceless -- (having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth)
       => precious -- (of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones")
       => rich -- (of great worth or quality; "a rich collection of antiques")
       => semiprecious -- (used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones; "such semiprecious stones as amethyst, garnet, jade, and tourmaline")
       => worth (predicate) -- (having a specified value; "not worth his salt"; "worth her weight in gold")
          Also See-> expensive#1; important#1, of import#1; worthy#1

Sense 2
valuable, worthful -- (having worth or merit or value; "a valuable friend"; "a good and worthful man")
       => worthy (vs. unworthy) -- (having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable; "a worthy fellow"; "a worthy cause")