Synonyms for unemployed
ˌʌn ɛmˈplɔɪdun·em·ployed

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1. unemployednoun

   Synonyms:
   jobless

2. unemployedadjective

   Having no profession (despite being able and willing to work).

   The unemployed are a growing portion of the population.

   Synonyms:
   jobless

3. unemployedadjective

   Synonyms:
   out of work, out-of-work, jobless

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1. 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, vacant

   Antonyms:
   active, busy, diligent, employed, industrious, occupied, working

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1. unemployed people, unemployedadjective

   people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)

   "the long-term unemployed need assistance"

   Synonyms:
   unemployed people

   Antonyms:
   employed, working(a), engaged, hired, on the job(p)

2. unemployedadjective

   not engaged in a gainful occupation

   "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

   Antonyms:
   on the job(p), hired, employed, engaged, working(a)

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. uncommissioned

   without any designated work.

   Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019  

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1. unemployedadjective

   Synonyms:
   unoccupied, doing nothing, out of employment

2. unemployedadjective

   Synonyms:
   disused

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1. List of paraphrases for "unemployed":

   jobless, unemployment, non-employed, ployed, redundant

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1. Charles Schumer:

   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.

2. Priscilla Almodovar:

   People were working in March. April rent may have come from their savings, the rent check is probably the first thing they pay. Now they may be unemployed, and we don't know what resources will get to them in time for May.

3. Jason Kander:

   And so absolutely, across the country, Republican elected officials will seek to take advantage of this to bounce people off of the voter rolls who are disproportionately people of color, unemployed people, young people, people with disabilities, and it's also possible for military veterans to get caught up in it too.

4. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Keeping SBI Securities as brokerage firm but have almost stopped investing in share market after realizing that brokerage firm cheats traders and all brokers are equally corrupt and crook who take small brokerage from traders and big commission from companies for helping organizations to loot money of investors and traders. Since am unemployed so seeing stock market operation for time pass purpose only and updating own observation to protect people

5. Charles Kurzman:

   For a long time those who did not require relief entertained the illusion that those being aided were in need through some fault of their own. It is now pretty clear in the national mind that the unemployed are a cross-section of the workers, the finest people in the land”