Roget's Thesaurus

#812. Price

Nouns

price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages etc. (remuneration) 973; value etc. 812a. dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage. bill etc. (account) 811; shot.

Verbs

bear a price, set a price, fix a price; appraise, assess, doom [U.S.], price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up; distrain; run up a bill etc. (debt) 806; have one's price; liquidate. amount to, come to, mount up to; stand one in. fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.

Adjectives

priced etc. v.; to the tune of, ad valorem; dutiable; mercenary, venal.

Phrases

no penny no paternoster [Lat.]; point d'argent point de Suisse [Fr.], no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch. one may have it for; a bon marche [Fr.].

#812a. Value

Nouns

worth, rate, value, intrinsic value, quality; par value. [estimated value] valuation, appraisal, assessment, appraisement. [value as estimated in a market] price current, market price, quotation; fair price, going price; what it will fetch etc. v.; what the market will bear. money's worth; penny's worth etc.; worth. cost (price) 812.

Verbs

value, esteem; appreciate. [estimate value] appraise, evaluate, assess.

Adjectives

valuable, estimable; worthwhile; worthy, full of worth. precious (expensive) 814.

Phrases

worth the price; worth a king's ransom; accountants who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

#812b. Worthlessness

Nouns

worthlessness, valuelessness; lack of value; uselessness. [low value] cheapness, shoddiness; low quality, poor quality. [worthless item] trash, garbage.

Adjectives

worthless, valueless; useless. [of low value] cheap, shoddy; slapdash. inexpensive etc. 815.

Phrases

not worth the paper it's printed on, not worth a sou.