2007-01-12 16:45:44 · 11 answers · asked by Shoeserstien 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
They're not exactly synonymous. The price of something is the money value one assigns to it. It's worth is it's value, with no reference to how much it can be bought or sold for.
So if it is priceless, it means it is so precious a price can not be put on it.
If it is worthless, it has no kind of value whatsoever.
2007-01-12 16:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Price and worth could be defined the same in a dictionary, but they are not the same. Price is a preset monetary value assigned to an item. worth is different because people have different views of what a particular object might be "worth" because of sentimental (or lack of sentimental) reasons. someone may be willing to pay more for a particular object, while another may not want to pay for it at all. They are opposite because something priceless may not be worth much monetarily, but is associated with a personal meaning, while something worthless might cost a lot to purchase but be completely useless. hope i helped.
2007-01-13 01:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by sarajane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Price' and 'worth' do not mean the same thing.
'Price' is the value of something in exchange. 'Worth' is the value of something to an individual not necessarily of material value.
Therefore, priceless would be 'without' price being able to be attached to it. Worthless, would be without worth or value to someone.
eg. A yacht may have a high price but to someone who lives in a desert it would not have a high worth.
P.S. Why is this question posted in philosophy?
2007-01-13 00:56:52 · answer #3 · answered by Costy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the thing is price less and worthless are not really opposites. what do they both mean? with out value. The way we use them, however, is different. worhtless is used as a somewhat derogatory statement about quality of a noun and is synonamus with cheap, priceless is used to describe a value so great it cannot be measured. technically they do mean the same thing, but are used in different situations.
2007-01-13 00:58:06 · answer #4 · answered by The Original Byron 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Price and worth don't always mean the same thing, though it's very close. Price is the amount of money(or something else) paid to buy something, made by the person selling it. Worth is how much value it has, how worth it has(does that amke sense?)
As for the opposites, it's just one more conundrum from the english language.
2007-01-13 00:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by Meggie Oakblood 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Techniqually, worthless and priceless both do mean the same thing- not being able to put a price on, they just have different connotations.
2007-01-13 00:53:40 · answer #6 · answered by chelleighlee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion price is what one person wants for something and worth is what another is willing to give. Priceless could mean a person will take nothing for something whether it be an object or something more ethereal (sentimental, love, personal. etc). Worthless means having no desire fore. Remember that one mans junk is another mans treasure. That includes love.
2007-01-13 00:58:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Price is a quantitative measure, like something you can put in terms of numbers (like the price of this is $6) or even more so, price is effectively the cost of something (price of war was the death of many soldiers)
So 'Priceless' means something you can't put a cost to that thing, there's no price that can be put to it.
Worth is something like equivalent value, think in terms of barter, what is this piece of cloth worth to you? It's worth a box of chocolates or its worth something else.
And so worthless would mean something that is worth nothing, the piece of cloth is worth 'nothing' to me, I wouldn't give anything to take it....if you get my drift?
2007-01-13 00:58:35 · answer #8 · answered by dawizard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because as moral beings we realize money cant buy everything (price & worth), and for those things that have no value they are "worthless" to us... and for the few items/moments that are regarded as perfect we groom and polish them to remember (priceless). therefor .... these are opposite because we choose to satisfy our souls with clean pleasure rather than material standards.
2007-01-13 01:20:44 · answer #9 · answered by Standing in Line 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't necessarily mean the same thing...in the field of economics they are different concepts, which come up when trying to explain why water, which we need, is almost free, while diamonds, which we don't need, are incredibly valuable.
I'd bet that in old English the two words are also dissimilar.
But hey, while you're on the subject, is it possible to be a gruntled employee?
2007-01-13 00:54:04 · answer #10 · answered by Dilettante 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋