VALUABLE


Meaning of VALUABLE in English

adj.

1 worth a lot of money

VERBS

▪ be , look

▪ become

▪ remain

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ commercially , economically

commercially ~ expertise

2 very useful

VERBS

▪ be , prove , seem

▪ become

▪ remain

▪ make sb/sth

They have skills and qualities which make them highly ~.

▪ consider sth

ADVERB

▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.

▪ enormously , especially , exceptionally , highly , immensely , incredibly , most , particularly , tremendously , truly

▪ uniquely

▪ increasingly

▪ equally

The subject could be equally ~ for scientists.

▪ intrinsically

The Romantics believed that the life of the imagination was intrinsically ~.

▪ potentially

▪ scientifically , socially

ecologically ~ species

PREPOSITION

▪ as

The survey was ~ as an indicator of local opinion.

▪ for

Good eyesight is a quality which is extremely ~ for a hunting animal.

▪ to

documents that are enormously ~ to historians

Valuable is used with these nouns: ↑ addition , ↑ advice , ↑ aid , ↑ ally , ↑ antique , ↑ asset , ↑ assistance , ↑ cargo , ↑ clue , ↑ collection , ↑ comment , ↑ commodity , ↑ contact , ↑ contribution , ↑ contributor , ↑ employee , ↑ evidence , ↑ exercise , ↑ experience , ↑ feedback , ↑ function , ↑ gift , ↑ guidance , ↑ guide , ↑ help , ↑ idea , ↑ indicator , ↑ information , ↑ insight , ↑ instrument , ↑ item , ↑ lesson , ↑ library , ↑ painting , ↑ possession , ↑ resource , ↑ role , ↑ service , ↑ source , ↑ suggestion , ↑ supplement , ↑ tool , ↑ treasure , ↑ work

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