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workless

ADJECTIVE

jobless

Synonyms

WEAK

between jobs collecting unemployment benefits laid-off on the dole out of a job out of work without employment without gainful employment

ADJECTIVE

unemployed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

idle inactive jobless underemployed

STRONG

down free loafing

WEAK

at liberty between jobs closed-down disengaged fired laid-off leisured on layoff on the bench on the dole on the shelf out of a job out of action out of work resting unapplied unengaged unexercised unoccupied unused without gainful employment

Antonyms

STRONGEST

active busy working

WEAK

employed occupied

Example Sentences

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In 2019, the then government said that their welfare changes had cut the number of workless households by one million since 2010.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

WSJ: With each new development in AI, do you feel like we’re slipping closer toward a workless future?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

There’s Elon Musk, bragging that he allows himself maybe two or three workless days a year.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2023

Unless, that is, neither Green nor Purple nor any of the M&Ms are actually workless for long.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2023

How perfectly true to life, subsequently, is the rapid dégringolade of this passion under the gnawing curse of the homeless, workless, purposeless existence which little by little disunites the lovers!

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

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