underemployed
underemployed adjective: employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
Adjective
underemployed (not comparable)
- Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
- I found myself underemployed when the company downgraded me from full-time to part-time.
underemployed meaning in Tamil and Kannada
underemployed in Tamil
- அரைகுறை வேலை வாய்ப்பு
underemployed in Kannada
- ಕೆಳಕೆಲಸದಲ್ಲಿರುವ
Origin of underemployed
From under- + employed.
Questions about underemployed
- What does underemployed mean?
- Underemployed means employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
- What is underemployed in Tamil?
- Underemployed in Tamil is அரைகுறை வேலை வாய்ப்பு. See Underemployed meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is underemployed?
- Underemployed is an adjective.
Words near underemployed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: underemployed (page history and authors); underemployed (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); underemployed (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underemployed.wav.
Cite this entry: “underemployed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/underemployed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.