unuseable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ useable.

Adjective

unuseable (comparative more unuseable, superlative most unuseable)

1. Alternative spelling of unusable.
   • 1804, Daniel Wakefield, An Essay upon Political Œconomy; Being an Inquiry into the Truth of the Two Positions of the French Œconomists; […], 2nd edition, London: […] [F]or F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […] by Bye and Law, […], § 35, page 46:

     That it is his pleaſure, thus to fufil^[sic] the purpoſes of his power and his wiſdom, who can doubt! who credits the revelation of his will; or who deny! who looking upon the mighty effects of his word, witneſſes all things incomplete and unuſeable, until ſubjected to the will, and faſhioned by the wit and induſtry of man.

   • 1808 January, “[British Catalogue.] Agriculture.”, in The British Critic, […], volume XXXI, London: […] [F]or F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […] by Law and Gilbert, […], page 86:

     When I entered for inſtance on lord Conyngham’s eſtate, the greater part of the land was in ſo foul and rude a ſtate as to be unuſeable by the Iriſh farmer, for his implements were not able to till it.

   • 1990, Mariette Hartley with Anne Commire, Breaking the Silence, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 39:

     Automobiles were mechanically similar, he reasoned. Manufacturers should be encouraged to change design, give them style. And style is what makes everything obsolete before it’s unuseable.

   • 2004, David Crump, David S. Caudill, David Charles Hricik, “Easements, Covenants, and Other Servitudes: Private Land-Use Arrangements”, in Property: Cases, Documents, and Lawyering Strategies, Newark, N.J.: LexisNexis, →ISBN, page 640:

     Perhaps the argument in favor of prescriptive easements is weaker than that for adverse possession, because denial of a prescriptive easement need not result in unuseable land, and detecting an easement can be more difficult than recognizing appropriation of the entire parcel itself.