tom3m
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What do 'priceless' and 'invaluable' mean. In dictionary, they're both described as very positive such as: very useful, cannot be replaced etc. My confusion probably comes from my mother tongue when we use literal translations of these words for negatives i.e. we have valuable + negative prefix in = invaluable must therefore mean sth that is not valuable.
Can you explain why there is no ambiguity possible. Yet, I understand that questioning two great online dictionaries may seem as a waste time, but I just find it interesting that there is a standard applied on other words (- negative prefix + adjective = negation of the adjective) and suddenly that does not work.
Thanks
Can you explain why there is no ambiguity possible. Yet, I understand that questioning two great online dictionaries may seem as a waste time, but I just find it interesting that there is a standard applied on other words (- negative prefix + adjective = negation of the adjective) and suddenly that does not work.
Thanks