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Meaning of "unusable" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF UNUSABLE

ʌnˈjuːzəbəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNUSABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unusable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNUSABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Usability

Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object. The object of use can be a software application, website, book, tool, machine, process, or anything a human interacts with. A usability study may be conducted as a primary job function by a usability analyst or as a secondary job function by designers, technical writers, marketing personnel, and others. It is widely used in consumer electronics, communication, and knowledge transfer objects and mechanical objects such as a door handle or a hammer. Usability includes methods of measuring usability, such as needs analysis and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance. In human-computer interaction and computer science, usability studies the elegance and clarity with which the interaction with a computer program or a web site is designed. Usability differs from user satisfaction and user experience because usability also considers usefulness.

Definition of unusable in the English dictionary

The definition of unusable in the dictionary is not able or fit to be used.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNUSABLE

abusable · accusable · amusable · confusable · fusible · inexcusable · infusible · irrecusable · losable · nondiffusible · nonreusable · perusable · refusable · reusable · transfusable · unaccusable · unamusable · unlosable · usable · useable

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNUSABLE

ununbium · ununited · unununium · unuplifted · unurged · unusably · unused · unuseful · unusefully · unusefulness · unushered · unusual · unusually · unusualness · unutilised · unutilized · unutterable · unutterableness · unutterably · unuttered

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNUSABLE

able · addressable · advisable · closable · collapsable · conversable · decomposable · disable · disposable · focusable · indispensable · kissable · licensable · passable · processable · realisable · releasable · sable · unrecognisable · unsurpassable · utilisable

Synonyms and antonyms of unusable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unusable» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF UNUSABLE

Find out the translation of unusable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of unusable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unusable» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

不可用
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

inutilizable
570 millions of speakers
en

English

unusable
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

व्यर्थ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير صالحة للاستعمال
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

непригодным
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

inutilizável
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অব্যবহারযোগ্য
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

inutilisable
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tidak boleh digunakan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

unbrauchbar
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

使用できない
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

사용할 수없는
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ora bisa digunakake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không sử dụng được
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பயன்படுத்தப்படாமல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

निरुपयोगी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

kullanılmaz
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

inutilizzabile
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

bezużyteczny
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

непридатним
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

inutilizabil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άχρηστα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbruikbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oanvändbar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ubrukelig
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unusable

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2 QUOTES WITH «UNUSABLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unusable.
1
Tristram Stuart
As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.
2
Gary Wolf
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNUSABLE»

Discover the use of unusable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unusable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unusable Past
Russell J. Reising. the same passages are summoned time after time to support a tautological reading which proves what it assumed in advance, that is, that the writers under investigation are truly our 'major' figures. Such exclusivity ...
Russell J. Reising, 2013
2
Psychological Monographs
S 1.410 9 3.156 7 4.494 Total Unusable K. as adj. S7 1.776 1.966 • 47 3.306 48 3 8.134 Total Unusable □.as Adj. S3 3.664 1.636 49 3.360 47 3.961 1 1 3 t 16 #11. K. V. H. #16. 1. V. U liouna 18 1.930 35 3.735 40 3.374 □oune 28 1.666 31 ...
‎1915
3
Marijuana Law
These courts theorize that when the legislature outlawed marijuana possession, it must have intended to target those people who "pose a danger to society." A person possessing an unusable amount of marijuana poses no danger and hence ...
Richard Glen Boire, Boire, 1996
4
Just Cause - Just Cause Weapons: Military Vehicles, Unusable ...
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online.
Source: Wikia, 2012
5
Fieldwork is Not what it Used to be: Learning Anthropology's ...
3 ON THE ETHICS OF UNUSABLE DATA Jennifer A. Hamilton That the conditions of contemporary anthropological fieldwork have changed seems at this point axiomatic although the precise dimensions of these conditions remain up for ...
James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus, 2009
6
Just Cause - Just Cause 2 Weapons: Military Vehicles, ...
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online.
Source: Wikia, 2012
7
A Theory of Epistemic Justification
... of prevailing conditions, and the motivating examples are perceptual faculties like sight and artifactual instruments like thermometers. These carry unproblematically circumscribable ranges of application, outside of which they are unusable.
Jarrett Leplin, 2009
8
Conventional Prompt Global Strike: Strategic Asset Or ...
Original publisher: [Washington, D.C.]: National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies, [2011] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)708290494 Subject: Weapons systems -- United States.
U.S. Government, 2011
9
Philosophical and Political Writings: Martin Heidegger
It does not just disappear, but bids farewell, so to speak, in the conspicuousness of what is unusable. Handiness shows itself once again, and precisely in doing so the worldly character of what is at hand also shows itself, too. The structure of  ...
Manfred Stassen, 2003
10
Every Frame a Rembrandt: Art and Practice of Cinematography
When 80 percent of one day's close-ups are unusable, that is not a mistake, it is an unforgivable disaster of major proportions. But I wondered how the close-up coverage could be unusable without the rest of the footage being affected.
Andrew Laszlo, Andrew Quicke, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNUSABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unusable is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Unions call for strike action over 'unusable' Universal Credit IT
"There is still a lot of downtime due to the systems being unusable," he said. He said the "well publicised" IT failures have created huge pressure to try and get ... «The Register, Jul 15»
2
Swift Reservoir boat ramp to be unusable soon
COUGAR — The boat ramp at Cougar Camp on Yale Reservoir is unusable due to dropping water levels and the ramp at Swift Forest Camp on Swift Reservoir ... «The Columbian, Jun 15»
3
Trying to Find Uses for 19 Truly Unusable Stock Photos
If you've never explored the land of stock photography, you should. It's much more than the generic family inserts you find in newly purchased frames. There's a ... «Zimbio, Jun 15»
4
'Unusable field conditions' in Pasco force change in state 4A, 3A …
The sites for the 4A and 3A state baseball championships will not be played at Gesa Stadium in Pasco because of “unusable field conditions,” the Washington ... «TheNewsTribune.com, May 15»
5
Smartphone Lock Pouch Leaves Students to their Own (Unusable
Smartphone Lock Pouch Leaves Students to Their Own (Unusable) Devices. One school is trying out a lightweight sack meant to keep devices from being a ... «Scientific American, May 15»
6
Tattoos confound Apple Watch wrist detection, making Apple Pay …
Some have discovered that turning off the device's wrist detection feature enables notifications to be received on the watch, but that Apple Pay remains unusable ... «NFC World, May 15»
7
ANU Bar fined for unusable fire exit
ANU Bar has been fined $3000 and publicly reprimanded for having an unusable emergency exit twice last year. The ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal ... «The Canberra Times, Apr 15»
8
Disgraced Gov. Kitzhaber Wasted $350 Million on Unusable
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber is running out of friends. On Thursday, Senate President Peter Courtney and House Speaker Tina Kotek – both Democrats ... «Americans for Tax Reform, Feb 15»
9
New Lower Earley cycleway branded 'unusable'
A new cycle route in Berkshire has been branded "unusable" at times by cyclists, four months after it opened. The 1.5 mile (2.5km) Lower Earley cycleway ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
10
Most fossil fuels 'unusable' under climate change goals
Global fossil fuel reserves worth trillions of dollars must be left largely untouched if international targets on curbing climate change are to be met, a new study ... «The Week UK, Jan 15»
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