Unused
[,ʌn'juːzd] or ['ʌn'jʊzd]
Definition
(adj.) infrequently exposed to; 'feet unused to shoes' .
(adj.) not yet put into use; 'we bought an unused car for a change' .
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Definition
(a.) Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment.
(a.) Not habituated; unaccustomed.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unemployed, untried, not applied.[2]. Unaccustomed, unwonted, new, not habituated, not familiar.
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Definition
adj. not used not accustomed.—ns. Unū′sage (obs.); Unused′ness.—adj. Unuse′ful useless.—adv. Unuse′fully.—n. Unuse′fulness.
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Examples
- Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I picture myself going up to bed, among the unused rooms, and sitting on my bed-side crying for a comfortable word from Peggotty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Dreams I am unused to have troubled me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Beaufort evidently felt it, and being unused to dismissals, stood staring at her with an obstinate line between his eyes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Paul, who was unused to him and his impulses, would naturally have bungled at this offer--declined accepting the same--et cetera. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The result is that what is instinctively original in individuality, that which marks off one from another, goes unused and undirected. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But we must remember that she is but nineteen as yet, unused to the art of deceiving, poor innocent creature! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It made me very uncomfortable to have him for a guest, for I was young then, and unused to disguise what I so strongly felt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Gathering in my arms all that was spread on the desk before me, I carried back the unused heap to its place in the third classe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My hair has become nearly grey--my voice, unused now to utter sound, comes strangely on my ears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Unused as I was to strangers, it was rather a trial to appear thus formally summoned in Mr. Rochester's presence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And yet Bradley Headstone, used to the little audience of a school, and unused to the larger ways of men, showed a kind of exultation in it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Closed The sun had set, and the streets were dim in the dusty twilight, when the figure so long unused to them hurried on its way. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- To make a living Howe took a position as a locomotive engineer, leaving his invention unused at home. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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