unused

Other forms of unused

comparative

unusedder·

superlative

unuseddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unused

What does unused mean?

unused means "not yet used or soiled". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unused?

unused has 2 syllables: unu-sed. The stress falls on "sed". In IPA it is /əˈnjuzd/.

What is another word for unused?

Close synonyms include fresh, idle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unused a common word?

unused is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.