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unusable

adj

Etymology

From un- + usable.

  1. derived from usable
  2. formed as unusable — “un- + usable”

Definitions

  1. Not usable.

    • The toilet was unusable because it was blocked.
    • From that night until mid-morning on Sunday, November 6, the station was unusable by any electric trains and the Brighton-Eastbourne service was maintained by steam traction, assisted by two Hastings six-car diesel muliple-units—[...].

  2. Something that is not fit for use.

    • All the fat, skin, bones and unusables from the slaughter house went to the soap factory, and got diverted to feed a company of soldiers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unusable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01unusable02usable03easy04comfort05consolation06prize07power08control09eliminated10eliminate

A definitional loop anchored at unusable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at unusable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA