Synonyms for jobless
- between jobs
- collecting unemployment benefits
- laid off
- on the dole
- out of a job
- out of work
- without employment
- without gainful employment
- workless
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR JOBLESS
Tens of thousands of them milling about, homeless, penniless, jobless.
Two weeks ago he was down and out, broke, jobless, starving.
Enroll them in a networking club for the jobless, one of the really good ones.
I ask him his opinion of a jobless faith, of a creed which dooms a man through life to a lean and plunderless integrity.
Half a thousand jobless workers, armed and reckless, marched toward the docks.
Now half a thousand jobless workers, armed and reckless, marched toward the docks.
He was more and more afraid of her as the despair of the jobless man in the hard city settled down on him.
What she was ashamed of now was the home it must take her to and the jobless husband waiting for her there.
The day before a jobless soldier threw himself beneath a train and his last words were, 'Over the top and the best of luck.'
The Commission wants unemployment to drop to the point where the number of jobless workers will equal the number of vacant jobs!
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR JOBLESS
inactive
adjectivenot engaged in action; inert, lazy- abeyant
- asleep
- blah
- disengaged
- do-nothing
- dormant
- down
- draggy
- dull
- idle
- immobile
- in holding pattern
- indolent
- inoperative
- jobless
- latent
- lax
- lethargic
- limp
- low-key
- mothballed
- motionless
- on hold
- ossified
- out of action
- out of commission
- out of service
- out of work
- passive
- quiescent
- quiet
- sedentary
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow
- sluggish
- somnolent
- stable
- static
- still
- torpid
- unemployed
- unoccupied
- unused
most inactive
adjectivenot engaged in action; inert, lazy- abeyant
- asleep
- blah
- disengaged
- do-nothing
- dormant
- down
- draggy
- dull
- idle
- immobile
- in holding pattern
- indolent
- inoperative
- jobless
- latent
- lax
- lethargic
- limp
- low-key
- mothballed
- motionless
- on hold
- ossified
- out of action
- out of commission
- out of service
- out of work
- passive
- quiescent
- quiet
- sedentary
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow
- sluggish
- somnolent
- stable
- static
- still
- torpid
- unemployed
- unoccupied
- unused