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UNUSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not in active use
Example:
idle hands
Synonyms:
idle; unused
Classified under:
Similar:
inactive (lacking activity; lying idle or unused)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not yet used or soiled
Example:
an unused envelope
Synonyms:
fresh; unused
Classified under:
Similar:
clean (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not yet put into use
Example:
we bought an unused car for a change
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
Context examples:
A new, unused single-use device.
(Original Device, NCI Thesaurus)
The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horseback towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on its hinder feet: but that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle, while his majesty had time to dismount.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I picture myself going up to bed, among the unused rooms, and sitting on my bed-side crying for a comfortable word from Peggotty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He saw the head and face of a young fellow of twenty, but, being unused to such appraisement, he did not know how to value it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She was too unused as yet to the whims of the man to accept them with equanimity.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
On the contrary, she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted, or to have anything take place at all in the way she could desire, that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far, than to repine at the counteraction which followed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Well, I observed to him that as you were unused to company, I did not think you would like appearing before so gay a party—all strangers; and he replied, in his quick way—'Nonsense! If she objects, tell her it is my particular wish; and if she resists, say I shall come and fetch her in case of contumacy.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Long unused to any self-control, the piercing agony of her remorse and grief was terrible.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I instance this to show the sensitiveness of my nervous organization at the time, and how unused I was to spectacles of brutality.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Curiosity and vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of immediate pleasure was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to right: he resolved to defer his Norfolk journey, resolved that writing should answer the purpose of it, or that its purpose was unimportant, and staid.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
