Word Meanings - UNEMPLOYED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNEMPLOYED)

• Idle
• Void
• unoccupied
• waste
• vain
• empty
• unemployed
• useless
• inactive
• lazy
• indolent
• Vacant
• Empty
• leisure
• unencumbered
• void
• unfilled
• mindless
• exhausted

Related words: (words related to UNEMPLOYED)

• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• LEISURED
  Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• MINDLESS
  1. Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking. 2. Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• UNENCUMBER
  To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• INACTIVE
  Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• INACTIVELY
  In an inactive manner. Locke.
• LEISURE
  1. Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment. The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care. Sir W. Temple. 2. Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence,
• INDOLENT
  Causing little or no pain or annoyance; as, an indolent tumor. Syn. -- Idle; lazy; slothful; sluggish; listless; inactive; inert. See Idle. (more info) 1. Free from toil, pain, or trouble. 2. Indulging in ease; avoiding labor and exertion;
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• INEXHAUSTIVE
  Inexhaustible. Thomson.