UNUSED TO

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unused to mean? 

• UNUSED TO (adjective)
  The adjective UNUSED TO has 1 sense:

1. infrequently exposed to

  Familiarity information: UNUSED TO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNUSED TO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Infrequently exposed to

Context example:

feet unused to shoes

Similar:

unaccustomed to (not habituated to; unfamiliar with)

 Context examples 

He saw the head and face of a young fellow of twenty, but, being unused to such appraisement, he did not know how to value it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You are young and unused to it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Something arose from difference of disposition and habit: one so easily satisfied, the other so unused to endure; but still more might be imputed to difference of circumstances.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was so very weak and unused to walking that when the door opened and he passed outside, the wind nearly carried him off his feet.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The animals were so unused to humans that they did not see Darwin – a potential predator - as a threat.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)

Long unused to any self-control, the piercing agony of her remorse and grief was terrible.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on horseback towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on its hinder feet: but that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till his attendants ran in, and held the bridle, while his majesty had time to dismount.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Well, I observed to him that as you were unused to company, I did not think you would like appearing before so gay a party—all strangers; and he replied, in his quick way—'Nonsense! If she objects, tell her it is my particular wish; and if she resists, say I shall come and fetch her in case of contumacy.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Picture it to yourself: a man of ordinary stature, slender of build, and with weak, undeveloped muscles, who has lived a peaceful, placid life, and is unused to violence of any sort—what could such a man possibly do?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was evidently unused to stiff collars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)