Synonyms of employable

employable

adjective

im-ˈplȯi-ə-bəl 

as in useful

capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose

this wall map of the bay is for decoration only—it's not employable for actual navigation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• useful
• available
• functional
• operable
• usable
• practicable
• serviceable
• exploitable
• relevant
• feasible
• viable
• fit
• applicable
• workable
• doable
• reusable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unavailable
• impracticable
• unusable
• inoperable
• unemployable
• nonfunctional

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of employable

The nonprofit works to solve the challenges of education, job training and developing the skills for workers to be employable. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2026

All our efforts are targeted to enable students to become employable. — Vimal Kapur, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025

These individuals are young, highly skilled, and employable by definition. — Ben Zweig, Time, 23 Oct. 2025

As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed. — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025