unused
/ʌnˈjuzd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not used.
adj
Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with.
Example Sentences
- "I have two unused vouchers for a free meal."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "The legislation also tightens the share of unused exemptions states can carry over from year to year."
- "I am unused to the dark nights of the countryside."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʌnˈjuzd/
- British English: /ʌnˈjuːzd/
Inflected Forms
more unused (comparative)
most unused (superlative)