Synonyms of jobless

jobless

adjective

ˈjäb-ləs 

as in unemployed

having no job

having been jobless for six months, he was starting to get seriously discouraged

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unemployed
• out of work
• underemployed
• subemployed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• employed
• working
• self-employed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of jobless

The bigger problem would be that Americans would hate a world without work, where the jobless rate floats at 30 percent instead of 4 percent. —Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026

Other key data points coming Thursday will be initial jobless claims from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the pending home sales report from the National Association of Realtors. —Kyle Arnold, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026

For his part, Pearce drew a parallel with the jobless recovery during the early 2000s, when the economy was similarly emerging from a period of over-hiring while technological advances were helping productivity surge. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2026

Thursday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that the four-week moving average of jobless claims, which balances out some of the week-to-week gyrations, rose by 6,000 to 212,250. —Matt Ott, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026