Revalued

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To experience a change in assigned economic worth, to be evaluated anew in terms of financial value, and to receive a reassessment of one's monetary significance
2. To be subjected to a reassessment of financial worth, to undergo a change in perceived economic value, and to have one's significance in monetary terms updated
3. To assign a new monetary value to something previously evaluated, changing its assessed financial status

Etymology: "Revalued" is the past tense and past participle of "revalue," which means to assign a new value to something. The verb is built from the prefix "re-," meaning "again" or "back," attached to "value," so it literally means to value anew. The prefix passed into English from Latin through Old French, and it has been a productive way to form verbs ever since, letting speakers take any existing word and add the sense of doing it once more. The bare verb, "revalue," is the one most readers meet in economics, where currencies are revalued when a government officially raises their worth against other currencies. The same sense of reassessment also applies to property, art, and personal judgments, so a single word covers both money and opinion. Because the prefix attaches so easily, "revalue" needed no special coinage; it simply followed the pattern of older words like "reconsider."

Synonyms: reassessed, reappraised

Antonyms: devalued