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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps "valuable" and "invaluable" would be another example? And we also have words which should mean the same, but are actually opposites, such as "worthless" and "priceless".
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Valuable and invaluable are close, but definitely not quite as much the same as flammable and inflammable.
My old family photos are invaluable, but not really very valuable.
A simple gold ring is valuable, but hardly invaluable.