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unserviceable

unserviceable adjective: unusable; of no use.

Adjective

unserviceable (not comparable)

  1. Unusable; of no use.
    • And that which was most to our disaduantage, the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable.1591, Walter Raleigh, A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Açores, this last Sommer betwixt the Reuenge, one of her Maiesties Shippes, and an Armada of the King of Spaine, London...
    • First Soldier. [Reads] ‘First demand of him how many horse the duke is strong.’ What say you to that? / Parolles. Five or six thousand; but very weak and unserviceable: […]c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    u/s
  2. Of machinery, etc.: not working.
    • During 1936, revealed Pravda, the Gorky plant set itself the task of turning out 12,000 cars. The actual output was 2,500. In one day 24 of 47 cars turned out were tagged “unserviceable.”1937 January 25, “Hornlessness”, in Time
    • [The war] just didn’t stop, till all the bombs were gone and all the aircraft were unserviceable.1957, Neville Shute, chapter 3, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow & Co.
  3. Impractical.

unserviceable meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

unserviceable in Tamil

பயன்படாத, பணி செய்ய இயலாத

unserviceable in Urdu

بیکار, ناکارہ, نکما

unserviceable in Kannada

ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾರದ, ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಲಾಗದ

Examples of unserviceable in a sentence

  • […] if a Man hath too mean an Opinion of himself, ’twill render him unserviceable both to God and Man.1696, John Selden, “Humility”, in Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, page 68:
  • But things unserviceable in one way, may with advantage be applied in another, that is, if one have genius enough for the purpose.1846 February 26, Herman Melville, chapter XIX, in Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas...
  • Organdy’s the most unserviceable stuff in the world anyhow, and I told Matthew so when he got it.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXXIII, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
  • It was heavily corroded, unserviceable due to a damaged crankshaft, and had been used to donate spares to other '08s'.2020 April 22, “Network News: Battery-powered shunter ready to begin testing”, in Rail, page 20:

Synonyms of unserviceable

Origin of unserviceable

From un- + serviceable.

Words formed from unserviceable

Questions about unserviceable

What does unserviceable mean?
Unserviceable means unusable; of no use.
What is unserviceable in Tamil?
Unserviceable in Tamil is பயன்படாத, பணி செய்ய இயலாத. See Unserviceable meaning in Tamil.
How do you use unserviceable in a sentence?
[…] if a Man hath too mean an Opinion of himself, ’twill render him unserviceable both to God and Man.
What part of speech is unserviceable?
Unserviceable is an adjective.

Words near unserviceable in the dictionary

  1. Unsers
  2. unservable
  3. unserved
  4. unservice
  5. unserviceability
  6. unserviceable
  7. unserviceableness
  8. unserviceably
  9. unserviced
  10. unservicelike
  11. unservicing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unserviceable (page history and authors); unserviceable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unserviceable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unserviceable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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