Disuse Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭs-yo͝os
The state of being unused
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. neglect
  2. desuetude
  3. obsoleteness
  4. decay
  5. abandonment
  6. discontinuance
  7. unemployment
  8. insuetude
  9. desertedness
  10. inusitation
  11. obsoletism
  12. obsolescence
  13. out-of-dateness
  14. unfashionableness
Antonyms:
  1. production
  2. usefulness
  3. employment

Words Related to Disuse

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Disuse Sentence Examples

  • Motives drawn from homoeopathic magic may thus explain the occasional disuse and prohibition of pictorial and plastic Xiv.

  • The classic term "camelopard," probably introduced when these animals were brought from North Africa to the Roman amphitheatre, has fallen into complete disuse.

  • There seems but little doubt that Napier was the first to make use of a decimal separator, and it is curious that the separator which he used, the point, should be that which has been ultimately adopted, and after a long period of partial disuse.

  • Almost immediately after the Norman Conquest the word fell into disuse.

  • The disuse implied no doctrinal change; the main motive was that the stiff vestment, high in the neck, was incompatible with a full-bottomed wig.

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