What does revalued mean?
Revalued means that something has been judged again because its worth, importance, or reliability needed to be reconsidered. The expression is especially common in finance, insurance, property, research, and historical writing: an insurer may revalue a building, while a scholar may revalue the significance of an event or the evidence behind an old conclusion. Revaluation does not necessarily mean that the new judgment is favorable; it simply indicates a fresh assessment after relevant circumstances or information have changed. As an adjective, revalued usually occurs directly before the thing being assessed, as in “a revalued estimate” or “a revalued asset.” The word is more formal and more specific than the general words reappraise or reconsider, often implying that a prior valuation or established interpretation is being replaced or adjusted.
To assess the value, importance, or significance of something again, especially following new information or changed circumstances.
"The committee revalued the proposal after receiving the revised cost estimates."
Often used in professional, financial, scholarly, and historical contexts.
Having undergone a new assessment of worth, importance, significance, or price.
"The report presented a revalued estimate of the project's economic benefit."
Normally used attributively, directly before a noun.
Revalued keeps the original judgment in view while forcing it to face new evidence.
Reviewed by Deb Chak, Editor. AI-assisted content curated by RJS Tech Solutions LLP.
Etymology of revalued
Revalued combines the prefix re-, meaning “again,” with valued, the past participle of value. Value comes through Old French from Latin valere, meaning “to be strong” or “to be worth,” the same root found in evaluate, valid, and valuation. The prefixed form developed in the language of accounting and finance, where assets may periodically be assessed again as their market values change.
Related word forms
How revalued is actually used
Common in formal and professional contexts, especially finance, valuation, insurance, research, and historical analysis. The participial adjective revalued is most natural immediately before a noun, as in 'a revalued estimate.'
Easily confused with revalued
Revalue is the infinitive form of the verb, while revalued is its past tense and past participle.
Valued means regarded as important or held in esteem, whereas revalued means assessed again in terms of worth.