Antonyms 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.

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

   Synonyms:
   idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, slothful, sluggish, trifling, unoccupied, vacant

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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"

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

   Synonyms:
   unemployed people

2. unemployedadjective

   not engaged in a gainful occupation

   "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

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

How to use unemployed in a sentence?

1. Dan Goldenberg:

   While it's good to see a slight improvement in overall veteran unemployment rates, young, post-9/11 veterans are still unemployed at a rate almost 50 percent greater than their peers.

2. Marlene Kim:

   I'm going to predict that this is going to happen again, i think it was part discrimination but also part other people dropped out of the labor market, they didn't even look for jobs. But Asians kept looking for jobs and being counted [as unemployed.].

3. Amanda Milleren:

   In the Sunday newspaper there was a four- or five-page spread for employment advertisements and almost every one of them said, 'Must pass a background check and a drug screen.' So there's a lot of people who are unemployed as a result.

4. President Trump:

   By pausing immigration, we'll help put unemployed Americans first in line for jobs as America reopens, it would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad. We must first take care of the American workers.

5. Ty Burrell:

   Salt Lake City was hit twice, the Covid crisis and also a series of earthquakes, about 15,000 [ restaurant workers ] are unemployed right now.

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