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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-594/
- Published: 2026-04-02T17:15:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-02T17:15:20.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

valuable (adjective, noun) -

*adjective*  
1a: having monetary value  
b: worth a good price  
2a: having desirable or esteemed characteristics or qualities  
b: of great use or service

*noun*  
: a usually personal possession (such as jewelry) of relatively great monetary value — usually used in plural

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/valuable?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Many people find it confusing that the in- prefix at the beginning of invaluable apparently lacks the meaning "not" found in a number of other words, such as invalid, inarticulate, and insane. In fact, the prefix does indicate negation, but in a way that is not immediately obvious. The original (and current) meaning of invaluable is "valuable beyond estimation"; the word describes something so precious that one cannot assign a price to it. This, clearly, is the opposite of the meaning "having no value; valueless" that the word might seem to carry. Invaluable actually has been recorded in the sense "without value," but such use has been exceedingly rare and is practically nonexistent today.

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