Short answer: opposite of each other
Priceless: worth a lot. I gave her a priceless ring
Worthless: worth nothing. He bought her a worthless bicycle.
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Short answer: opposite of each other
Priceless: worth a lot. I gave her a priceless ring
Worthless: worth nothing. He bought her a worthless bicycle.
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"Priceless" = worth so much you can't put a price on it; "worthless" = worth nothing. Example sentences - "She gave him a priceless diamond" (she gave him a really valuable diamond); "the present she gave him was worthless" (she gave him something that wasn't worth anything). You can also use "priceless" to mean "really funny" e.g. if someone has just told a really funny joke you could say, "you're priceless", or you could apply it to a comedian you'd heard on TV.
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January 8, 2017 - If something has no value, its value can easily be quantified as 0. So worthless and priceless are clearly not synonyms.
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September 29, 2025 -
I saw a short on YouTube where the joke was one of the characters saying "She may be worth a million dollars to you, but for me she's worthless", which I thought was something very romantic.
It turns out that it is not and, in fact, it's a very negative thing to say. Why does "priceless" fit there but "worthless" does not?
For additional information, both translate into Galician and Spanish as "To have no value"
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Priceless translates as 'too valuable to define a value for', worthless translates as 'not valuable enough to define a value for'.
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"Worthless" means that it has no worth. "Priceless" means that it is so valuable that it has no price - it will not be sold no matter what you offer.
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Why are 'worthless' and 'priceless' opposites instead of synonyms? - Quora
English idiom commonly adopts the latter reading for priceless. ... Collocation and conventional use have fixed the senses: worthless = negative, not worth anything; priceless = overwhelmingly positive, beyond valuation.
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Are priceless and worthless things ultimately the same thing? - Quora
Answer (1 of 6): well priceless to one is worthless to another, so really they don't exist. to my grandmother a penny my grandfather gave her is priceless.worth more than all money in world. to a billionaire, a nice car might be nothing bc they might have 10. it's all relative,and in the end al...
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THE WORTHLESS AND THE PRICELESS – PINS OF LIGHT
Because he can’t take them with him, a dying man’s riches are worthless as he lies in his deathbed, but the love of the people who have spent the last few days and nights by his side, holding his hand and praying for him–that’s priceless.
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May 29, 2025 - is that priceless is so precious as not to be sold at any price while worthless is not having worth and use, without value, inconsequential.
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August 16, 2021 - Or, “That can’t be a cardinal, because cardinals are not blue.” · The opposite of “priceless” is “worthless”. From a linguistic standpoint, “worthless” makes more sense than “priceless”, because “without worth” is ...
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“Invaluable” vs. “Worthless”: What’s the Difference? - Engram
The primary difference between the two words is that "invaluable" denotes high value, while "worthless" means no value.
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So To Speak English: Is that priceless or worthless? Confusing words part 2
But for something completely unique, like the vases in the top-left picture, or the helmet in the bottom-right, are even more valuable than that. In fact, they are priceless - they are so valuable that they do not have a price.
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Cooler Than Cool: worthless and priceless – The A Word
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What is the difference between priceless and worthless? - Answers
Worthless means the item has no value (at least to the person speaking). A free block of ice for an Eskimo would be worthless, since they have an abundance of ice already. However, in Phoenix during the summer, free ice might draw a crowd.
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r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit: why does worthless have a different mening to priceless? aren't they the supposed to be the same meaning?
April 16, 2022 -
Priceless, something that has no price, worthless something that has no worth? Idk I'm confused
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Worthless means that a thing has no worth, in the sense that that thing is valued at nothing and could hardly be give away. Priceless means a thing has so much worth that one couldn't possibly fix a price to it, either due to sentimental reasons or do to actual value. The two terms seem similar at a glance, but are antonyms and are meant to be so.
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Having no worth means that a thing is completely valueless. Having no price means that it is so valuable that a monetary amount cannot be assigned to the item.
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Priceless. So valuable that its value cannot be determined. The prefix “in” here relates to the idea that a value cannot be determined for a given thing, not that the thing is without value. Edit: it’s to its. Damn autocorrect.
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The other comments are correct. I just want to say that I totally understand why this is such a confusing word in English!