unused

[ uhn-yoozd for 1, 2; uhn-yoost for 3 ]

/ ʌnˈyuzd for 1, 2; ʌnˈyust for 3 /

not used; not put to use: an unused room.

never having been used: an unused postage stamp.

not accustomed: unused to cold winters.

Origin of unused

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at un-¹, used

Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.

Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? |Clive Irving |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Unused funds, sitting idle, do nothing to perpetuate the cycle of support that America relies on.

Ex-Politicians Keeping $100 Million in Private Slush Funds |Dave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity |May 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The majority of gift cards go to waste, unused by consumers and left to rot in landfills.

Wood Cards Are a Green Alternative to the Classic Plastic Gift Card |Daniel Gross |November 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Three weeks later, they had settled Jamestown, an unused bit of land the Native Americans had deemed undesirable.

Not Just Cannibalism: Seven Ways Colonial Jamestown Was a Living Hell |Nina Strochlic |May 2, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

These beliefs are more than pretty ideas sitting on a shelf to be admired but unused.

Turning Idealism Into Action |Jill W. Iscol |October 25, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
On a peg just inside the door of the ranchman's old wine shed hung one of the horses' unused nosebags.

A-Birding on a Bronco |Florence A. Merriam
Now Roy, though he was but a youth, unused to the ways of the world, had much natural shrewdness.

The Boy from the Ranch |Frank V. Webster
He racked the unused half of his mind for appropriate sentiments.

The House of Mystery |William Henry Irwin
Rich men, unused to physical exertion, labored by the side of the workingmen digging trenches in which to bury the dead.

The San Francisco Calamity |Various
Her mother was not unused of late to her whims, though she never had carried them to so much excess.

Miles Tremenhere, Vol 2 of 2 |Annette Marie Maillard

unused

(ʌnˈjuːzd) not being or never having been made use of

(ʌnˈjuːst) (postpositive foll by to) not accustomed or used (to something)