Talk:Brynhildr/@comment-25303995-20160508062052/@comment-26979215-20160508172806

If you want the input of an English major, invaluable literally means "without value." But the connotation is that it cannot be valued because it is too good which everyone has come to accept as the current meaning of the word. By the original defintion, referring to something as "extremely invaluable" is a little weird because that implies there are degrees of "without value." It is synonymous with priceless so think if you said if something was "extremely priceless." It doesn't really make sense, it either has a price or it doesn't.

So in summary, the word does mean "without value" by its construction but so many people believed it meant "extremely valuable," english dictionaries changed the definition to match the connotations, destroying an idiom and turning it into a misnomer. Fucking English.