JLPT N1 · な-adjective

無用 (muyou)

無用 (むよう, muyou) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “useless; futile”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
むよう
Romaji
muyou
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. useless; futile · な-adjective, noun
  2. unnecessary; needless · な-adjective, noun
  3. not on business; unrelated; unauthorised; unauthorized · な-adjective, noun
  4. prohibited; banned; forbidden · な-adjective, noun

Example sentences

電気のために、ろうそくは我々の生活にほとんど無用になった。
Electricity made candles of little use in our life.
あせって仕事を仕上げようとすれば、無用な間違いを犯す。
When we rush to complete our work, we make needless errors.
無用の立ち入り禁止。
No admittance except on business.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 無用

な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)無用だむようだ muyouda
Present (polite)無用ですむようです muyoudesu
Negative無用じゃないむようじゃない muyoujanai
Past無用だったむようだった muyoudatta
Negative past無用じゃなかったむようじゃなかった muyoujanakatta
Te-form無用でむようで muyoude
Before a noun無用なむような muyouna
Adverb (~ni)無用にむように muyouni

Kanji in 無用

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 無用.

Source: JMdict entry 1530940 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.