used

English

Etymology

From Middle English used, equivalent to use +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːzd/
• (past of use): enPR: yo͞ozd, IPA^(key): /juːzd/

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• (auxiliary verb): IPA^(key): /juːzd/, /juːst/

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• Rhymes: -uːst

Verb

used

1. simple past tense and past participle of use
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75

     In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.

   You used me!

2. (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]

   He used to live here, but moved away last year.

Adjective

used (comparative more used, superlative most used)

1. That is or has or have been used.
   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

   The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers.

2. That has or have previously been owned by someone else.

   He bought a used car.

3. Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
   • 1965, Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"

     Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.

   I got used to this weather.

Synonyms

• (having been used):
• (previously owned by someone else): pre-owned, second-hand

Antonyms

• (having been used): unused
• (previously owned by someone else): new

Hyponyms

• little-used
• well-used
• widely-used

 

Derived terms

• usedness

Translations

that is or has or have been used

• Czech: použitý (cs)
• Danish: brugt (da)
• Finnish: käytetty (fi)
• Greek: χρησιμοποιημένος (el) (chrisimopoiiménos)
• Hungarian: használt (hu), felhasznált
• Icelandic: notaður
• Macedonian: употре́буван (upotrébuvan), по́ловен (póloven)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brukt (no)

  Nynorsk: brukt

• Portuguese: usado (pt)
• Romanian: utilizat (ro) m, folosit (ro) m, întrebuințat (ro) m
• Russian: испо́льзуемый (ru) (ispólʹzujemyj), испо́льзованный (ru) (ispólʹzovannyj)
• Spanish: usado (es)

that has or have previously been owned by someone else

• Arabic: مُسْتَعْمَل‎ (ar) (mustaʿmal)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 第二手 (dì'èrshǒu), 中古 (zh) (zhōnggǔ)

• Czech: použitý (cs)
• Danish: brugt (da)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: käytetty (fi)
• French: seconde main (fr), occasion (fr), de seconde main (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: gebraucht (de), Second-Hand
• Greek: μεταχειρισμένος (el) (metacheirisménos)
• Hungarian: használt (hu)
• Japanese: 中古 (ja) (ちゅうこ, chūko)
• Korean: 중고 (ko) (junggo)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can

• Lithuanian: naudotas, vartotas
• Macedonian: по́ловен (póloven)
• Maori: nguture
• Mongolian: хэрэглэж байсан (khereglej baisan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brukt (no)

  Nynorsk: brukt

• Polish: używany (pl)
• Portuguese: usado (pt), de segunda mão
• Romanian: (deja) utilizat (ro) m, (deja) întrebuințat (ro) m
• Russian: поде́ржанный (ru) (podéržannyj), б/у (ru) (b/u)
• Swedish: begagnad (sv)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can

accustomed

• Azerbaijani: öyrəncəkli, öyrəncəli, alışmış
• Finnish: tottua (fi) (to get used to)
• Hungarian: hozzászokott

• Portuguese: acostumado (pt)
• Russian: привы́кший (ru) (privýkšij)

See also

• used to

Anagrams

• Dues, desu, dues, duse, sued