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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unused
I.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Unused ammunition was dumped by US planes over Laos.
unused ammunition
Unused muscles can feel very sore when you start exercising.
▪ an unused office
▪ Any unused wool can be returned to the shop.
▪ Batteries which are unused for long periods may have to be recharged.
▪ His old car sat in the garage, unused.
▪ the safe disposal of unused stocks of pharmaceutical products
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And you can keep carrying unused home-office deductions forward until you are able to use them.
▪ He felt like a useless and unused link in the chain.
▪ He is brimming with unused love, a passion for justice, a need to repent that surpasses what the law ordained.
▪ In effect the equivalent of a million pounds-worth of fees went unused.
▪ The large batch of Recipe 179 he had made stood unused in the locked room.
▪ The operating system itself would have the ability to purge unused and unwanted programs.
▪ The United States is a vast country with literally hundreds of square miles of land, unwanted and unused.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He is brimming with unused love, a passion for justice, a need to repent that surpasses what the law ordained.
▪ In effect the equivalent of a million pounds-worth of fees went unused.
▪ The operating system itself would have the ability to purge unused and unwanted programs.
▪ The tendency for anyone unused to such enormous forces is literally to be thrown over the handlebars.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unused

Unused \Un*used"\, a.

  1. Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment.

  2. Not habituated; unaccustomed.

    Unused to bend, impatient of control.
    --Thomson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unused

c.1300, "unaccustomed," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of use (v.). Meaning "not employed" is recorded from late 14c.

Wiktionary
unused

a. 1 not used 2 not accustomed

WordNet
unused
  1. adj. not yet used or soiled; "a fresh shirt"; "a fresh sheet of paper"; "an unused envelope" [syn: fresh]

  2. not yet put into use; "we boughtt an unused car for a change"

  3. not in active use; "the machinery sat idle during the strike"; "idle hands" [syn: idle]

Usage examples of "unused".

Urged by the information which Afy thinks she unconsciously obtains from Lachen, and harrowed by the idea that I am about to tear her from England, she has appealed to the Duke in a manner to which they were both unused.

But as for the old man he spoke but few words, and as one unused to speech, albeit he was courteous and debonair.

The interview room was warm, drily stale and unused like the aseptic corridors he had followed to reach it.

A discouraged aspidistra stood in a tarnished brass pot near the unused counter.

That means storing some results in the unused descriptors within the tweaker.

It remained unused, gathering dust while it lay in wait, encased in the old leather of its sheath, until it once again rested in the hand of its rightful owner, the first male child born to the Royal bloodline in 13 or 14 generations.

Joe spent about an hour chopping weeds in the long unused Roybal ditch, and then, after digging a small feeder trench from Indian Creek into the ditch, he opened the Roybal ditch head-gate at the other end so water could flow onto that fallow land.

In Ty Station the Joy Hall level has an area of over 2500 square miles, mostly unused, as I had personal reason to discover several weeks ago.

Powell had left camp when his horse, long unused, had precipitately and unexpectedly bucked him off headforemost into a pot of frijoles.

Mahtra had ever seen, but she was just about the straightest: her shoulders stayed square above her hips as she took-her measured steps, and her nose pointed forward only, never to either side, even when Mahtra accidently hudged her unused fork, and it skidded and clattered loudly to the mosaic floor.

Hyacinthe went toward him, and the people, unused to seeing her there for a long time past, hushed their talk, and one of them marked the newness of the light that shone in her eyes and the happiness that smiled on her lips as she came.

Brought up in a world where women were hidden away, living a life of luxury but little freedom, he was unused to talking to them, and treated Bina and Issle with the same cold indifference.

Although he pleaded guilty last week in an illegal kickback scheme, he now seeks his pension, sick leave and unused vacation pay.

Tocohl judged him a northerner still unused to southern kinesics, despite long residence.

Its knowbots return from a relict database with the curious fact that Ship had once possessed a fleet of such vessels, but this knowledge has fallen out of active memory and exists now, in fragments only, in unused bins.