as in useless
not capable of being put to use or account
a completely unusable gadget that's just taking up space in the drawer
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Recent Examples of unusable
Eventually, this cascade of collisions could render certain orbits entirely unusable.
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Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
The new version grew out of theGet Back project, when Jackson and his Wingnut team took hours of previously unusable footage and cleaned it up into the Beatles, loud and clear and laughing and fighting together.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
The good news is that shoppers won’t suddenly be stuck with unusable coins.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 17 Nov. 2025
At 5-nanometre or smaller nodes (current cutting-edge chips), a tiny 30-nanometre particle (about 1/3,000th the width of a hair) can ruin a circuit and make the chip unusable.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
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Brown’s statement on Monday was mostly useless corporate-speak.—
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This tiny amount of copper acts as a molecular steering wheel, preventing sugar molecules from shattering into useless carbon dioxide.—
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Nothing’s as sobering to an impractical but fun idea as having to foot the bill.—
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By increasing effective gravity, researchers can accelerate years or even decades of structural and geological stress into just a few hours, enabling experiments that would be impractical in the real world.—
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Soils that are high in peat moss are unsuitable for citrus trees.—
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These tests, though frequently used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations, were criticized as inappropriate and unsuitable for the people of Greenland and other minorities.—
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“Unusable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unusable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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