Unemployed
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English
Adjective
Unemployed (not comparable)
- Having no job (despite being able and willing to work).
Synonyms
- jobless
- out of work (used only after the noun)
Noun
Unemployed (uncountable)- (the unemployed; plural) Unemployed people considered as a group.
Synonyms
Adverbs for Unemployed
idly; lazily; indolently; unfortunately; miserably; helplessly; inadvertently; unhappily; temporarily; evidently; frequently; manifestly; involuntarily.
Thesaurus
at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at liberty, at loose ends, available, beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, dead-still, disengaged, drone, extra, fallow, fired, fixed, free, freeloader, fresh, held back, held in reserve, held out, idle, idle rich, immobile, immotive, in abeyance, in hand, jobless, leisure, leisure class, leisured, let go, lounge lizard, lumpen, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mint, moocher, motionless, moveless, new, nonworker, off, off duty, off work, original, otiose, out of commission, out of employ, out of harness, out of work, panhandler, parasite, pristine, put aside, put by, rentiers, reserve, riding at anchor, saved, spare, spiv, sponger, static, stationary, statuelike, still, stock-still, stored, suspended, the unemployable, the unemployed, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten, unconsumed, unemployable, unengaged, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, unmoved, unmoving, unoccupied, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, waived, workless
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɪd
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