underused
Speech parts
1. underused - Adjective
2. underused - Verb
Meaning
underused (not comparable)
Used less than normal or desirable.
underused
simple past and past participle of underuse
Synonyms
Examples
After eight years, Poe becomes eligible for parole; a brief plane journey home with some violent criminals is all that lies between Poe and his reunion with wife Tricia (an underused Monica Potter) and daughter Casey.
And so Mbatha-Raw is badly underused, her flashback character reduced to a madcap 1920s-muse stereotype: a dazzling smile in a sparkly skullcap and drop-waisted dress, lit in amber nostalgia so glowy you could warm your hands by it.
Clothes in contemporary fiction seem to me to be an underused trope, perhaps because fast fashion has made individual garments less emblematic.
These winter-hardy perennials are vastly underused, and thankfully are receiving increased recognition as important additions to perennial flowerbeds.
Columnist Brett Middleton explores three commonly underused AdWords features that can have a big impact on performance: ad variations, Gmail ads.
In different contexts, Cartier said at the meeting that providing local government subsidies is a common method "used all over the United States" to encourage redevelopment of blighted or underused locales.