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Synonyms for unemployed

Most common

workless jobless

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Idle — having no use, not doing work

idle, unoccupied, inactive, unused, suspended, disused, fallow, workless, dormant

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Having no use, not doing work

Related words

Word family
unemployment
Is a kind of
lacking

Example sentences

  • jobless The number of jobless is at an all time high.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
unemployedfalling
worklesssteady
joblessfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
idle2
5 letters
fired2
6 letters
unused2, fallow2
7 letters
dormant2, jobless2, disused
8 letters
inactive3, workless
9 letters
suspended3
10 letters
unoccupied4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (idle2 = 2 syllables).