priceless
/ˈpɹaɪslɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
So precious as not to be obtainable or sold at any price.
Example Sentences
- "For he the night before in Tarquins Tent, / Vnlockt the treaſure of his happie ſtate: / VVhat priſeleſſe vvealth the heauens had him lent, / In the poſſeſſion of his beauteous mate."
- "Shall giue Theodoret to vnderſtand, / His ignorance of the prizeleſſe Ievvell, vvhich / He did poſſeſſe in you, mother in you, […]"
- "Tutor of Athens! he, in every Street, / Dealt priceleſs Treaſure: Goodneſs his Delight, / VViſdom his VVealth, and Glory his Revvard."
- "Mario told me of a hotel in which he had been, where a chambermaid stole a priceless diamond ring from an American lady. […] The chambermaid had a lover in the bakery, and he had baked the ring into a roll, where it lay unsuspected until the search was over."
- "DeepMind, the British company discussed in chapter 2, was sold to Google for £400 million in 2014 without even a golden share for government. It is now priceless, almost certainly not for sale at any price."
- "This trend reached its logical end in an op-ed by Paul Krugman, who flatly debunked the truism that human life was "priceless". The statistical cost of life was calculated all the time in transportation and environmental policy, he said: it was roughly $10 million."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɹaɪslɪs/
- British English: /ˈpɹaɪslɪs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more priceless (comparative)
most priceless (superlative)