unemployed

Noun

• people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)
  • "the long-term unemployed need assistance"

Adjective

• not engaged in a gainful occupation
  • "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

Adj

• Having no job despite being able and willing to work.
• Having no use, not doing work

Examples

• The government announced a new initiative to help the unemployed.
• The number of unemployed keeps rising steadily.

Synonyms

unemployed people, Havishamesque, Miss Havishamesque, abeyant, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, at rest, backward, backwards, behind the times, between jobs, cessant, cobwebbed, cobwebby, dated, defunct, discontinued, disused, dootsie, dormant, dull, elderly, employmentally challenged, expired, extinct, fallow, fossilized, idle, inactive, inert, jobless, languid, latent, nonactive, nonemployed, obsolete, occupationless, old, old school, old-fashioned, oldfangled, on the wallaby, on the wallaby track, out of a job, out of date, out of fashion, out of work, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parachronistic, passé, quiescent, resting, sedent, sedentary, silent, slow, superannuated, superseded, suspended, torpid, unactive, unbusied, unbusy, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless

Antonyms

employed, in use, working

Related Words

lay off, unemployment