unused English

Meaning unused meaning

What does unused mean?

Definitions in simple English

unused Adjective

— 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.

— 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.

unused

— adjective (= fresh) not yet used or soiled a fresh shirt a fresh sheet of paper an unused envelope

— adjective infrequently exposed to feet unused to shoes

— adjective not yet put into use we bought an unused car for a change

— adjective (= idle) not in active use the machinery sat idle during the strike idle hands

Synonyms unused synonyms

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unused English » English

unaccustomed

idle

fresh

new

unwonted

untapped

unutilized

unusual

unemployed

unacquainted

disused

unversed

untraversed

untravelled

untouched

unspent

unpractised

unpracticed

unoccupied

unimproved

unfamiliar with

unfamiliar

unexploited

unexpended

unenjoyed

uneaten

undeveloped

uncommon

unappropriated

unacquainted with

set aside

reserved

renew

recent

out-of-use

out of use

off-beat

modern

miss out

loose

left over

ignorant

free from being used

fallow

dead

by itself

alone

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Simple sentences

Why have almost all people got a clean conscience? Because it is unused.

Napoleon's headquarters were in an unused windmill.

She loves me; she has grown unused to her former state of life.

Movie subtitles

The apartments had remained unused and locked from that time till the sale.

Perhaps they are a little unused to you, but that'll come in time.

Lately, this house has become unused to visitors.

You understand, Lieutenant Lawrence my people are unused to explosives and machines.

She reads that countless mines and oil wells are lying unused in the wilds of Nigeria, in Biafra.

One area for investigation is the doctors' hypothesis. that the mind can be permanently improved. through surgery and enzyme enrichment. thereby utilizing unused portions of the brain.

From there, take the unused line that crosses the bay on the Lawrence Bridge.

Things like this can never be so, to leave an expert unused is wasteful.

Last night, several security forces apprehended and placed in custody a number of servant apes from widely scattered households throughout the city, who had gathered clandestinely in the unused building on the outskirts of the East Sector.

But unused ideas do not keep. They go to waste.

Unused.

One unused prophylactic.

Well, get unused to it. We're a team.

Sir Reginald, I'm told that your butler was down in the cellar in an unused part of the house.

An unused one is relatively germ-free.

Just get it. An unused one!

Right, according to Hedley's report, the money was crisp, unused pound notes.

Now, however, we must go - We're unused to land, you know. But, I promise, we'll return.

I walked quickly, carrying the used maps in my left hand and the unused in my right.

But how'll I find something of this someone so unused to looking for me?

It's an administrative order to formalise Government powers for the utilisation of unused local authority land until development commences, then it reverts to the authority.

A weapon unused is a useless weapon.

One pack condoms, unused. - All right, all right.

Of one whose subdued eyes, albeit unused to the melting mood drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees their medicinal gum.

An honest fellow, but unused to the ways of gentlefolk.

He appeared on one of my 100.000 colour TV sets, which..for politics' sake have been unused.

Do you think I'd waste your time when there's that perfectly healthy creature bumbling about the house bubbling over with unused energy? Where is he now? Miles away by now, if he's got any sense.

I believe the explanation to be Lord Sebastian, sir is simply unused to wine.

However, I have accepted that you are unused to wine.

And we must find some material in the unused portions of the footage.

If viewers in the Matlock and Buxton areas of Derbyshire would like to check their cutlery drawers, they will find a bent spoon and an unused Weetabix special offer coupon.

My husband's boat has been lying unused down in the harbour for years.

It would be a shame if all your experience went unused.

Still unused.

News and current affairs

China, India, Brazil, Turkey, and others may have firms operating close to the world's technological frontier, but they still have a lot of unused catch-up potential.

Splendid, but the Meltzer Commission would shrink the World Bank, returning unused capital to shareholders - a major resource transfer to the rich.

I would put the unused capital to productive use and increase grant-giving activities of the Bank.

From largely unused land a generation ago, Pudong has become a booming center of skyscrapers, luxury hotels, parks, industry, and vast stretches of apartment buildings.

That it why it will continue to haunt us, continue to disturb normal relations between the countries in this region with so much unused potential, as long as we do not deal with it in a forthright manner.

Silicon Valley started in the 1950's with a modest plan by Frederick Terman, a farsighted dean of Stanford's Engineering School, to create an Industrial Park on unused Stanford land.

The permanent bureaucracy proved resistant, and DPJ politicians, unused to power, made mistakes.

The resulting funds, as well as those from existing unused SDRs, would be allocated or re-allocated to development projects and leveraged to augment investment resources.

If there is unused capacity in the economy, part of any increase in the quantity of money will be spent on increasing output rather than just buying existing output.

Having already officially hit the ceiling, the Treasury is moving money around and tapping various pots of unused funds to pay its bills.

The Babri Masjid had lain unused for a half-century before its destruction, as most of Ayodhya's Muslims had emigrated to Pakistan after Partition.