unused

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈjuːzd/
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/ʌnˈjuːzd/ · /ʌnˈjuːst/ · /ʌnˈjuzd/ · /ʌnˈjust/

Definition of unused

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not used.
    “I have two unused vouchers for a free meal.”
    “If you have an unused credit for a year for which you also have additional tax liability because of an early disposal of an asset, you may reduce the added tax liability by the current year's unused credit that may be carried back solely because of recomputation of the investment credit for the prior year.”
    “The legislation also tightens the share of unused exemptions states can carry over from year to year.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not used.
    “I have two unused vouchers for a free meal.”
    “If you have an unused credit for a year for which you also have additional tax liability because of an early disposal of an asset, you may reduce the added tax liability by the current year's unused credit that may be carried back solely because of recomputation of the investment credit for the prior year.”
    “The legislation also tightens the share of unused exemptions states can carry over from year to year.”
  2. Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with.
    “I am unused to the dark nights of the countryside.”
    “I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.”
    “When I returned again to life, the same uproar, the same confused and violent movements, shook and deafened me; and presently, to my other pains and distresses, there was added the sickness of an unused landsman on the sea.”
    “Oh shut up, Wally, Candy was thinking, although she understood why he couldn't stop babbling. He was unused to an environment he couldn't instantly brighten; he was unused to a place so despairing that it insisted on silence. He was unused to absorbing a shock, to simply taking it in. Wally's talk-a-mile style was a good-hearted effort; he believed in improving the world – he had to fix everything, to make everything better.”
    “He [Nabokov] begins this first letter [to Véra Nabokov] with memorable abruptness and no salutation ('I won't hide it: I'm so unused to being—well, understood, perhaps—so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick ...[…]').”

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Etymology

From un- + used.

Anagrams of unused

1 play · some not in Scrabble

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