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unused en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ʌnˈjust/ (General-American)
  • /ʌnˈjuːst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ʌnˈjuːzd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ʌnˈjuzd/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English used English unused From un- + used.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not used.
    • The legislation also tightens the share of unused exemptions states can carry over from year to year. 2023 June 2, Tami Luhby, “Here’s who would have to work for government benefits – and who wouldn’t – under the debt ceiling package”, in CNN:
    • I have two unused vouchers for a free meal.
    • The Lancaster House agreement's clauses on land distribution, which were later written into the independence constitution, are worth reading if only to understand why [Robert] Mugabe reserves some of his most vitriolic verbal assaults for the British who, as the one-time colonial power, presided over the conference. The clause made it extremely difficult for Zimbabwe's democratically elected government to procure land, even land that was unused. The legal hoops through which a government would have to jump to do so were designed to ensure that it would rarely, if ever, happen. 2001, George Alagiah, A Passage to Africa, London: Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
    • A particular problem is the disposal of small quantities of unwanted, surplus, or unused pesticides. Considerable attention has been given recently to the detoxification, prior to disposal, of sizable amounts of pesticides such as the herbicides returned from Vietnam. Some attention has also been given to the smaller amounts of unused pesticides at the consumer level, and in a few communities, specific pesticides such as DDT have been collected by authorities and safely disposed of by proven procedures. 1975 June, Edward W. Lawless, Thomas L. Ferguson, Alfred F. Meiners, “Introduction”, in Guidelines for the Disposal of Small Quantities of Unused Pesticides (Environmental Protection Technology Series; EPA-670/2-75-057), Cincinnati, Oh.: National Environmental Research Center, United States Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, page 9:
    • If you have an unused credit for a year for which you also have additional tax liability because of an early disposal of an asset, you may reduce the added tax liability by the current year's unused credit that may be carried back solely because of recomputation of the investment credit for the prior year. 1972 October, “Losses from Operating a Farm”, in Farmer's Tax Guide: Income and Self Employment Tax (Internal Revenue Service; publication 225), Washington, D.C.: Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, published 1973, →OCLC, page 35:
  2. Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with.
    • I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme. 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338:
    • When I returned again to life, the same uproar, the same confused and violent movements, shook and deafened me; and presently, to my other pains and distresses, there was added the sickness of an unused landsman on the sea. 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
    • I am unused to the dark nights of the countryside.
    • Oh shut up, Wally, Candy was thinking, although she understood why he couldn't stop babbling. He was unused to an environment he couldn't instantly brighten; he was unused to a place so despairing that it insisted on silence. He was unused to absorbing a shock, to simply taking it in. Wally's talk-a-mile style was a good-hearted effort; he believed in improving the world – he had to fix everything, to make everything better. 1985, John Irving, The Cider House Rules: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, ISBN 978-0-688-03036-0; republished as The Cider House Rules, London: Black Swan, 1986, ISBN 978-0-552-99204-6, page 237
    • He [Nabokov] begins this first letter [to Véra Nabokov] with memorable abruptness and no salutation ('I won't hide it: I'm so unused to being—well, understood, perhaps—so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick ...[…]'). 2014, Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, Letters to Véra, London: Penguin Classics, →ISBN:

Forms

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most unused Degree=Sup lexicographic
more unused Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

pre-owned · familiar · secondhand · acquainted · preloved · used · old

Deriveds

unusedness

Relateds

unused to

Synonyms

virgin · mint · pristine · new · unacquainted · unfamiliar with

Translations (53)

nb ubenyttet (not used) · es inusado (not used) · el ασυνήθιστος (not accustomed (to)) · nb uvant (not accustomed (to)) · ru непривы́кший (not accustomed (to)) · de nicht gewöhnt (not accustomed (to)) · ca sense utilizar (not used) · ro neutilizat (not used) · mk неупотребен (not used) · ru неиспо́льзуемый (not used) · fi käyttämätön (not used) · fr inutilisé (not used) · gv anoayllagh (rish) (not accustomed (to)) · pl nieużywany (not used) · da ubenyttet (not used) · eo neuzata (not used) · et kasutamata (not used) · ca sense usar (not used) · hu felhasználatlan (not used) · bg неупотребяван (not used) · fa ناآشنا (not accustomed (to)) · ro nefolosit (not used) · nb ubrukt (not used) · ca no usat (not used) · it inutilizzato (not used) · gv ass ymmyd (not used) · gv noa (not used) · ru неиспо́льзованный (not used) · fa نو (not used) · gv neuchliaghtit (rish) (not accustomed (to)) · bg неизползван (not used) · ro neîntrebuințat (not used) · mk неискористен (not used) · fa دستنخورده (not used) · bg несвикнал (not accustomed (to)) · pt não usado/utilizado (not used) · pl nieużyty (not used) · gv oor (not used) · da ubrugt (not used) · de ungebraucht (not used) · gv neuoayllagh (rish) (not accustomed (to)) · hu használatlan (not used) · es inusitado (not used) · gv treigit (not used) · mk ненавикнат (not accustomed (to)) · pl nieprzyzwyczajony (not accustomed (to)) · fr inaccoutumé (not accustomed (to)) · el αχρησιμοποίητος (not used) · es desacostumbrado (not accustomed (to)) · da uvant (not accustomed (to)) · it inusato (not used) · pt desacostumado (not accustomed (to)) · de unbenutzt (not used)