unused

Adjective

Positive unused

Comparative more unused

Superlative most unused

1. If something is unused it is not being used now or has not been used for some time.

   Today most of its factories sit unused, their silent machinery rusting.

   An old car that had gone unused for months should be hard to start.

   We're taking the unused space and building three additional smaller rooms.

2. If you're unused to something, you don't have a lot of experience with it.

   We were unused to moving about the boat and felt sick.

   Unused to the cold, she had no warm clothes.

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