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jmdict 1527510 Active (id: 2276744)
未使用
みしよう
1. [adj-no]
▶ unused



History:
5. A 2023-09-11 02:47:28  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
GG5, etc,
4. A* 2023-09-11 00:36:42  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
未使用	2940339	99.6%
未使用が	7335	0.2% <-- this が is largely けど
未使用は	1603	0.1%
未使用を	2827	0.1%

Example of は, definition: 未使用は、開封していても使っていなければ未使用になります。
  Comments:
I recently commented on 未訳.  Jim agreed with my intuition that this was not [n].  I have a similar intuition for most [adj-no] beginning with 未.

If you do a jmdict advanced search for:
  starts-with: 未
  starts-with: un
  noun: [check]

You will get 90 matches. Maybe 1/4 of them are glossed with adjectives (the others have a noun stem, like 未使用品).  I would personally remove [n] from nearly all of those. They would need to be hand-checked though.

You can find some more with different English prefixes (in, im, non, not)

You might skim a google book search yourself for "未使用を" to see if there is a convincing argument to leave [n].  In shopping and computer science, there is a common contrast between 使用・未使用, but I think the interpretation in these cases is still as adjectives "used/unused(computer memory, product, etc.)", not as nouns "usage/disusage?".  It's a category that could just as easily have an adjective in the same spot. 新しい/古い...

I'm going to edit two other similar terms, and then leave for discussion.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
3. A 2021-12-21 20:45:29  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2021-12-20 11:34:23  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
未使用な	15917	  
未使用なので	5257	  
未使用なもの	2798	  
未使用なものに	2632	  
未使用なものに限り	2573	  
未使用なら	1778	  
未使用な理由	1742	  
未使用なの	1642	  
未使用なのに	841	  
未使用なん	758	  
未使用なのです	756	

未使用の	770128	  
未使用のもの	395073	  
未使用のものに	349049	  
未使用のものに限ら	265445	  
未使用の商品	92123	  
未使用のものに限り	78557	  
未使用の商品に	61484	  
未使用の場合	59728	  
未使用の物	49254	  
未使用の物に	41989	  
未使用の場合に	32425
  Comments:
I think daijs is wrong to call this 形動.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
1. A 2011-01-06 08:47:13  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijs
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +12,2 @@
+<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
+<pos>&n;</pos>

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