Thesaurus:unemployed

Thesaurus

unemployed

English

Adjective

Sense: having no job

Synonyms

• between jobs (euphemistic)
• employmentally challenged (euphemistic)
• idle
• jobless
• nonemployed
• occupationless
• on the wallaby (Australia, slang)
• on the wallaby track (Australia, slang)
• out of a job
• out of work
• resting (euphemistic)
• unbusied
• unemployed
• workless

Antonyms

• employed
• working

Hyponyms

• funemployed
• laid-off
• Withnailesque (rare)

Hypernyms

• lacking    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:lay off

Further reading

• “678. disuse” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “681. inaction” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “unemployed” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.