Unemployed Synonyms and Antonyms

ŭnĕm-ploid, -ĭm-
Out of work
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. jobless
  2. workless
Not occupied or put to use
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. idle
  2. inactive
  3. jobless
  4. unoccupied
  5. out-of-work
  6. laid-off
  7. at liberty
  8. between-jobs
  9. in the bread lines
  10. receiving charity
  11. canned
  12. fired
  13. loafing
  14. without gainful employment
  15. unused
  16. on the dole
  17. cooling one's heels
  18. on-the-shelf
  19. vacant
  20. leisured
Antonyms:
  1. employed
  2. occupied
  3. busy
  4. at work
People who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. unemployed people

Words Related to Unemployed

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. lazy
  2. work
  3. used
  4. the unemployed
  5. homeless
  6. low-waged
  7. under-employed
  8. self-employed

Unemployed Sentence Examples

  • Howard was unemployed but was forced to eat an expensive lease.

  • You've got more time on your hands than an unemployed whaler.

  • Large numbers of unemployed, ex-criminal and other needy persons have been aided or dealt with.

  • A numerous floating population of labourers, attracted at certain periods by pressing work in the port, and afterwards left unemployed owing to the enormous fluctuations in the corn trade, is one of the features of Odessa.

  • A large public park, opened in 1866, was laid out as a relief work for unemployed operatives during the cotton famine of the earlier part of the decade.

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