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unproductive.adjective
not productive;
idle;
nothing added to exchangeable value unproductively.adverb
unproductiveness.noun
undertake, undertook,
undertaken,
undertaking,
undertakes.verbs
transitive
verb use.to take upon oneself; decide
or agree to do (undertake a task);
to pledge
or commit oneself to (undertake oneself to care for an elderly relative);
to set about; begin
intransitive
verb use.to make oneself responsible
unambiguous.adjective
having or exhibiting no ambiguity
or uncertainty;
clear; accurate
unambiguously.adverb
unequivocal.adjective
admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; clear
and unambiguous (an unequivocal success)
unequivocally.adverb
useless.adjective
being or having no beneficial
use; futile
or ineffective;
incapable
of functioning
or assisting; ineffectual
(she panics easily and is useless in an emergency)
uselessly.adverb
uselessness.noun
useful.adjective
having a beneficial
use; serviceable (a useful kitchen gadget);
having practical.utility
(a useful service to othes)
usefully.adverb
usefulness.noun
use, used,
using,
uses.verbs
transitive verb use.to
put into service or apply for a purpose; employ; to avail oneself of; practice
(use caution when driving on snowy, icy roads); to conduct oneself toward;
treat or handle; to seek or achieve an end by means of; exploit (used their
highly placed friends to gain access to the position); to take or consume;
partake of (she rarely used alcohol)
intransitive verb use.used
in the past tense followed by 'to' in order to indicate
a former.state,
habitual.practice
or custom
(mail service used to be faster)
use.noun
the act
of using; the application or employment of something for a purpose (with
the use of a calculator; skilled in the use of the bow and arrow); the
condition
or fact
of being used (a chair in regular use); the manner
of using; usage (learned the proper use of power tools); the permission,
privilege or benefit of using something (gave us the use of their summerhouse);
the power or ability to use something (lost the temporary use of her vehicle
while it needed servicing); the need or occasion to use or employ (have
no use for these old clothes); the quality
of being suitable
or adaptable
to an end; usefulness (tried to be of use in the kitchen); a purpose for
which something is used (a tool with several uses; a pretty bowl, but of
what use is it?); gain or advantage; good (what's the use in talking to
them about it? they listen, but never help); accustomed or usual procedure
or practice; the benefit or profit of lands and tenements of which the
legal title and possession are vested
in another; the arrangement establishing the equitable
right to such benefits and profits
used
to.phrasal
verb
if something used to happen, it happened regularly
or all the time in the past, but does not happen now (he used to go to
our school; we're eating out more often than we used to; you didn't use
to eat chips when you were younger)
use up.phrasal
verb
to consume
completely (the world is using up resources)
usable.also.useable.adjective
that can be used (recyclables are usable); fit
for use; convenient
to use (usable spare parts; a usable reference
book)
usability.or.usableness.noun
usably.adverb
usage.noun,.plural.usages
the act,
manner
or amount
of using; use (the usage of a technical term; an instrument
such as a meter
that measures water usage); the act or manner of treating;
treatment (subjected the car to rough usage by driving on a potholed
gravel road); a usual,
habitual
or accepted.practice;
a habit; the way in which words or phrases
are actually
used, spoken or written in a speech community (the Spanish speech community
has a different
way of speaking when compared to English)
unswerving.adjective
not veering
or turning aside (walked a straight
path); constant;
steady (unswerving allegiance; unswerving devotion);
not swerving
unswervingly.adverb
undeviating.adjective
keeping a true course; unswerving
(served his family with undeviating loyalty and devotion); not deviating
undeviatingly.adverb
unreceptive.adjective
not receptive
unreasonable.adjective
not governed by reason
(an unreasonable request for more taxes); exceeding
reasonable limits; immoderate
(unreasonable demands; "The reasonable man
adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable
man."....George
Bernard Shaw, Irish Writer and Playwright)
unreasonably.adverb
unreasonableness.noun
unreasoning.adjective
not governed
or moderated by
reason
unreasoningly.adverb
unruly, unrulier,
unruliest.adjectives
disorderly;
acting without commonsense;
difficult or impossible to discipline,
control or rule (the little kid was described as refusing
control of those trying to vaccinate
him as he had direct and authoritative information from his mother that
vaccines can be
injurious);
if you describe someone as unruly, you mean that they behave badly and
are difficult to impossible to reason
with for change and maybe for good reason; violent;
wild; intractable;
refractory;
recalcitrant
unruliness.noun
unfeigned.adjective
not feigned;
genuine
in feeling; sincere;
not a phony; unfeigned stresses.spontaneity
and absence
of
pretense (her unfeigned delight
at receiving the award)
unfeignedly.adverb
undeniable.adjective
difficult
or impossible to deny;
irrefutable
(undeniable facts)
undeniably.adverb
undeniableness.noun
unorthodox.adjective
breaking with convention
or tradition; not orthodox
unorthodoxly.adverb
unorthodoxy.noun
unabated.adjective
sustaining
an original intensity
or maintaining
full force with no decrease (an unabated windstorm; once blessings start
they continue unabatedly)
unabatedly.adverb
utility.noun,.plural.utilities
the quality
or condition
of being useful; usefulness; a useful article or
device (kitchens have many gadget devices which are useful); a public utility
such as transportation, water, gas and electricity
utility.adjective
used, serving or working in several capacities
as needed, especially (a utility cast member is prepared to play any of
the smaller theatrical roles on short notice; capable
of playing as a substitute
in any of several positions (a utility infielder such as in baseball);
designed for various often heavy-duty practical
uses (a utility knife; a utility vehicle); raised or kept for the production
of a farm product rather than for show or as pets (utility livestock);
of the lowest grade (utility beef, utility chickens)
uncultured.adjective
not cultured
or cultivated
(an uncultured coal-mining town; regarded
him as an uncultured brute);
lacking art or knowledge; if you describe
someone as uncultured, you are critical
of them because they do not seem to know much about art, literature and
other cultural
topics
unrefined.adjective
in its natural state;
an unrefined food or other substance is in its natural state and has not
been processed (unrefined carbohydrates include brown rice and other grains;
unrefined petroleum is called crude
oil); the word 'unrefined' is also used of men and women's behaviors;
not refined; crude;
uncouth
(how can a seemingly
refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?)
uncivilized.adjective
not civilized;
barbarous
uncivilizedly.adverb
uncivilizedness.noun
uncivil.adjective
discourteous;
rude;
uncivilized; barbarous
uncivilly.adverb
uncivilness.noun
unconditional.adjective
without conditions or limitations; absolute (had
carte
blanche approval)
unconditionally.adverb
unconditionality.or.unconditionalness.noun
unconditioned.adjective
unconditional; unrestricted;
in psychology,
not dependent on or resulting from conditioning;
unlearned
or natural
unconditionedness.noun
unconditioned response.noun,.plural.unconditioned
responses
in psychology, a natural, usually unvarying
response evoked
by a stimulus
in the absence
of learning
or conditioning
unconditioned stimulus.noun,.plural.unconditioned
stimuli
in psychology, a stimulus that evokes an unconditioned
response
unstinting.adjective
bestowed liberally (unstinting approval)
unstintingly.adverb
unsettle, unsettled,
unsettling,
unsettles.verbs
transitive verb use.to
displace
from a settled.condition;
disrupt;
to make uneasy; disturb
intransitive verb use.to
become unsettled
unsettlingly.adverb
unsettlement.noun
unachievable.adjective
impossible to achieve or attain (an seemingly
unachievable goal)
unbounded.adjective
having no boundaries
or limits (unbounded space); not kept within bounds; unrestrained (unbounded
enthusiasm)
unboundedly.adverb
unboundedness.noun
uncomfortable.adjective
unable to be comfortable; to experience physical
discomfort; ill at ease; uneasy; feeling and/or causing anxiety; disquieting
uncomfortably.adverb
uncomfortableness.noun
unchaste, unchaster,
unchastest.adjectives
not chaste
or modest
unchastely.adverb
unchasteness.or.unchastity.noun
unquenchable.adjective
impossible
to satisfy
(unquenchable thirst); impossible to suppress
or destroy (unquenchable enthusiasm)
unquenchably.adverb
underlying.adjective
lying
under or beneath something (underlying
strata);
basic;
fundamental;
present
but not obvious;
implicit
(an underlying meaning);
taking precedence;
prior
(she had an underlying concern for her daughters on vacation).
underlie, underlay,
underlain,
underlying,
underlies
to be located under or below;
to be the support or basis
of; account for (many factors underlay her decision to stay put)
underneath.adverb
in or to a place beneath;
below; on the lower face or underside underneath.preposition
under; below; beneath
underneath.adjective
lower; under
underneath.noun
the part or side below or under
unarticulated.adjective
not articulated;
not carefully or thoroughly
thought out; in biology,
not having joints
or segments
.
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