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jobless

jobless adjective: lacking employment.

Adjective

jobless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking employment.
    • a jobless man
    • The government announced a new initiative to help the jobless.
  2. (slang) Having too much time on one's hands; having nothing better to do.
    • ― I’m showing him our texts with her, the liar.
      ― Bro, that is so jobless!

jobless meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Gujarati

jobless in Urdu

پلنگ توڑ

jobless in Bengali

jobless, unemployed
অক্রিয় okriẏo

jobless in Malayalam

unemployed, out of work, out of a job
തൊഴിൽരഹിതം, ജോലിയില്ലാത്ത, തൊഴിലില്ലാത്ത, ജോലിയില്ലാതായ, നിരുദ്യോഗ, തൊഴിൽനഷ്ടപ്പെട്ട

jobless in Gujarati

jobless
નવરું navrũ

Examples of jobless in a sentence

  • Most of the men are retired, jobless, or have otherwise temporarily absented themselves from the workplace.
  • You dumped this funny, clever, successful accountant for this jobless human bin fire?
  • Who were they planning on creaming first in a jobless, growthless recovery?

All 11 example sentences with jobless

Synonyms of jobless

Origin of jobless

From job + -less.

Words formed from jobless

Questions about jobless

What does jobless mean?
Jobless means lacking employment.
What is jobless in Urdu?
Jobless in Urdu is پلنگ توڑ. See Jobless meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is jobless?
Jobless is an adjective.

Words near jobless in the dictionary

  1. Jobie
  2. Jobies
  3. Jobin
  4. jobing
  5. Jobins
  6. jobless
  7. joblessly
  8. joblessness
  9. joblife
  10. joblike
  11. Jobling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jobless (page history and authors); jobless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অক্রিয় (Bengali) (page history and authors); jobless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); નવરું (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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