unvalued

English

Etymology

un- +‎ valued

Adjective

unvalued (comparative more unvalued, superlative most unvalued)

  1. Not having been valued or appraised.
    an unvalued estate
  2. Not considered to be of worth; deemed valueless.
    • c. 1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii
      For he himself is subject to his birth; / He may not, as unvalued persons do, / Carve for himself, for on his choice depends / The safety and health of this whole state, / And therefore must his choice be circumscribed / Unto the voice and yielding of that body / Whereof he is the head.
  3. (obsolete) Having inestimable value; invaluable.
    • 1595, Amoretti or Sonnets, Edmund Spenser
      'Mongst which, there in a silver dish did lie Two golden apples of unvalued price; Far passing those which Hercules came by, Or those which Atalanta did entice.
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