disused

[ noun dis-yoos; verb dis-yooz ]

Antonyms for disused

adjective. old-fashioned

Word Origin & History

c.1400, see dis- + use (n.).

But it had been disused for some time, and the pipe in the lion's mouth was dry.

The disused door into her room was locked, and the key safe on the housekeeper's bunch.

The rooms were low and cramped, and had a mouldy, disused smell in them.

The passage, whithersoever it led, had been disused for years.

That which encompassed and strengthened the muzzle or mouth of a cannon; now disused.

Is she the sort of person who'd waste an afternoon in a disused greenhouse?

The reader must not suppose that this was a disused chapel: far from it.

The old tongue of the Church was now to be disused in public worship.

I had had the man removed to a disused cabin, and when I got there the door was locked.

Between us and the dwelling house there was a disused pigsty.