What is another word for unemployed?
Synonyms for unemployed
ˌʌn ɛmˈplɔɪdun·em·ployed
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Wiktionary
unemployednoun
Synonyms:
joblessunemployedadjective
Having no profession (despite being able and willing to work).
The unemployed are a growing portion of the population.
Synonyms:
joblessunemployedadjective
Synonyms:
out of work, out-of-work, jobless
English Synonyms and Antonyms
unemployed
Idle in all uses rests upon its root meaning, as derived from the Anglo-Saxon idel, which signifies vain, empty, useless. Idle thus denotes not primarily the absence of action, but vain action — the absence of useful, effective action; the idle schoolboy may be very actively whittling his desk or tormenting his neighbors. Doing nothing whatever is the secondary meaning of idle. One may be temporarily idle of necessity; if he is habitually idle, it is his own fault. Lazy signifies indisposed to exertion, averse to labor; idleness is in fact; laziness is in disposition or inclination. A lazy person may chance to be employed in useful work, but he acts without energy or impetus. We speak figuratively of a lazy stream. The inert person seems like dead matter (characterized by inertia), powerless to move; the sluggish moves heavily and toilsomely; the most active person may sometimes find the bodily or mental powers sluggish. Slothful belongs in the moral realm, denoting a self-indulgent aversion to exertion. "The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth," Prov. xxvi, 15. Indolent is a milder term for the same quality; the slothful man hates action; the indolent man loves inaction. Compare VAIN.
Synonyms:
idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, slothful, sluggish, trifling, unoccupied, vacantAntonyms:
active, busy, diligent, employed, industrious, occupied, working
Princeton's WordNet
unemployed people, unemployedadjective
people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
"the long-term unemployed need assistance"
Synonyms:
unemployed peopleAntonyms:
employed, working(a), engaged, hired, on the job(p)unemployedadjective
not engaged in a gainful occupation
"unemployed workers marched on the capital"
Antonyms:
on the job(p), hired, employed, engaged, working(a)
Editors Contribution
uncommissioned
without any designated work.
Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unemployedadjective
Synonyms:
unoccupied, doing nothing, out of employmentunemployedadjective
Synonyms:
disused
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unemployed":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6530 | unemployment | |
#9013 | idle | |
#9125 | lazy | |
#10506 | inactive | |
#10675 | vacant | |
#12212 | unemployed | |
#12423 | redundant | |
#27289 | inert | |
#29806 | sluggish | |
#37511 | jobless | |
#43939 | unoccupied | |
#69037 | trifling | |
#80300 | indolent | |
#108855 | ployed | |
#114767 | slothful |
How to use unemployed in a sentence?
We are not distributing federal money, but taxpayers' money, many of those who pay taxes are now partially unemployed, their jobs are in question, and now we take the money away from them and distribute it somewhere where there are also problems.
There are many, many unemployed people, and people need checks in their pockets. ... We hope our Republican friends will see the need and work with us, but if not, we will get it done.
Discuss the reasons you were searching for the right job versus discussing the inability to find a job, that makes you look more confident in the reason for the longer unemployed gap.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi:
Among the often desperate young unemployed, the call to jihadism has worked, four thousand Tunisians have joined jihad, in Syria, Libya and elsewhere, and some 500 have already come back here, where they pose a threat. That is not to mention the five or six thousand others we have succeeded in preventing from leaving.
We have to end institutional racism but we have to deal with the reality that 50% of young black kids are unemployed, that we have massive poverty in America, that we have an unsustainable level of income and wealth inequality, as Martin Luther King Jr. told us, we have address both.
Translations for unemployed
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- متبطلة, متبطلArabic
- işsizAzerbaijani
- беспрацоўныBelarusian
- безработенBulgarian
- aturatCatalan, Valencian
- nezaměstnanýCzech
- arbejdsløs, daDanish
- arbeitslos, ArbeitsloserGerman
- άνεργοι, άνεργοςGreek
- cesante, desempleado, paradoSpanish
- töötuEstonian
- بیکارPersian
- työtönFinnish
- chômage, chômeur, inoccupéFrench
- dífhostaithe, neamhfhostaitheIrish
- munkanélküliHungarian
- գործազուրկArmenian
- atvinnulausIcelandic
- disoccupatoItalian
- 失業者Japanese
- უმუშევარიGeorgian
- 실업자, 실업, 실직한Korean
- بێکارKurdish
- aarbechtslosLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- bedarbisLithuanian
- bezdarbnieksLatvian
- невработенMacedonian
- arbeidsledig, arbeidsløsNorwegian
- werkloos, werklozenDutch
- bezrobotny, bezrobotni, niezatrudnionyPolish
- desempregadoPortuguese
- șomerRomanian
- нетрудоустроенный, неработающий, безработный, незанятыйRussian
- bargguheapme, bargguheapmiNorthern Sami
- незапослен, nezaposlenSerbo-Croatian
- nezamestnanýSlovak
- brezposelnSlovene
- papunëAlbanian
- arbetslösSwedish
- işsizler, işsizTurkish
- безробітнийUkrainian
- thất nghiệpVietnamese
- nenvobikVolapük
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