different between unused vs unhandseled

English

Etymology

From un- +? used.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?ju?zd/, /?n?ju?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?juzd/, /?n?just/
• Rhymes: -u?zd, -u?st
• Hyphenation: un?used

Adjective

unused (comparative more unused, superlative most unused)

1. (not comparable) Not used.

   Synonyms: mint, new, pristine, virgin

   Antonyms: used, old, preloved, pre-owned, secondhand

2. Not accustomed (to), unfamiliar with.
   • 1985, John Irving, The Cider House Rules: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, ISBN 978-0-688-03036-0; republished as The Cider House Rules, London: Black Swan, 1986, ISBN 978-0-552-99204-6, page 237:

     Oh shut up, Wally, Candy was thinking, although she understood why he couldn't stop babbling. He was unused to an environment he couldn't instantly brighten; he was unused to a place so despairing that it insisted on silence. He was unused to absorbing a shock, to simply taking it in. Wally's talk-a-mile style was a good-hearted effort; he believed in improving the world – he had to fix everything, to make everything better.

   Synonyms: unacquainted (with), unfamiliar with

   Antonyms: acquainted (with), familiar (with)

Usage notes

The second pronunciation (/-u?st/) is used for the “not accustomed” sense (especially in informal speech), and is a devoicing of the terminal /zd/ to /st/ under the influence of the /t/ of the following to. In very informal situations the final stop is often elided completely, leading to the pronunciation of “unused to” as a single word /??n.ju?s.t?/. In formal speech the second (/-u?st/) pronunciation is frequently proscribed in favour of the fully voiced (/-u?zd/) pronunciation, which is acceptable for either sense and is normally used for the “not used” sense in all registers.

Translations

Anagrams

• unsued

English

Etymology

un- +? handseled

Adjective

unhandseled (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) unused; untouched; pure
   • 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, On the American Scholar

     Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.