adjective
- having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- having qualities worthy of respect, admiration, or esteem: a valuable friend.
- of considerable use, service, or importance: valuable information.
noun
- Usually valuables. articles of considerable value, as of personal property, especially those of relatively small size: They locked their valuables in the hotel safe.
adjective
- having considerable monetary worth
- of considerable importance or qualitya valuable friend; valuable information
- able to be valued
noun
- (usually plural) a valuable article of personal property, esp jewellery
1580s, from value (v.) + -able. As a noun, “a valuable thing,” from 1775 (in modern use often in plural).