not being used at the moment; never having been used:
The house was left unused for most of the year. * Any unused pastry can be frozen and used at a later date.
compareDISUSED
Part of speech: adjective
~ to sth / to doing sth not having much experience of sth and therefore not knowing how to deal with it; not used to sth:
This is an easy routine, designed for anyone who is unused to exercise. * She was unused to talking about herself.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for unused is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unused a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unused is tagged as adjective.
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