unserviceable

a. 无用的, 不适用的, 无耐用的

别名

inserviceable u/s US

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Unusable; of no use.

    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: William Ponsonbie; Riverside Press, 1902, And that which was most to our disaduantage, the one halfe part of the men of euerie shippe sicke, and vtterly vnseruiceable.

  2. 2.

    Of machinery, etc.: not working.

  3. 3.

    Impractical.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

unusable unuseable

反义词 1

serviceable

近义相关 6

useless broken-down inoperable burnt out burned out unrepaired

参见 2

useless nonfunctional

词源

From un- + serviceable.

来源：wiktionary