unusable
adjective
un·us·able
ˌən-ˈyü-zə-bəl 
: not capable of being used or fit for use : not usable
unusable documentary footage
The lavatory, totally unusable, was full of snow which had blasted in through the keyhole.—
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a completely unusable gadget that's just taking up space in the drawer
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The goal was to record commercials, but the footage was unusable because Biden was too incoherent.
—Nicole Russell, USA Today, 23 May 2025
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—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
In 2020, authorities said that fingerprints found on the scooter, previously believed to be unusable, had been linked to Misch.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 14 May 2025
Her lab and clinic didn’t get that granular in their reporting back in 2019, so she was told her embryo was aneuploid and, thus, unusable.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
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Nicole Russell, USA Today, 23 May 2025
By predicting which cases require a human in the loop, an otherwise unusable genAI system will gain the trust needed to unleash it broadly.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
In 2020, authorities said that fingerprints found on the scooter, previously believed to be unusable, had been linked to Misch.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 14 May 2025
Her lab and clinic didn’t get that granular in their reporting back in 2019, so she was told her embryo was aneuploid and, thus, unusable.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unusable
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“Unusable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unusable. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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