What part of speech is unemployed?

Unemployed can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. unemployed is a noun, singular of unemployeds.
  • 2. unemployed is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more unemployed
    most unemployed
  • Positive: unemployed 
  • Comparative: more unemployed
  • Superlative: most unemployed

What does unemployed mean?

Definitions

Adjective

unemployed - not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital"

Noun

unemployed - Unemployed people.

Examples of unemployed

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Unemployed workers marched on the capital.
2. adj. We are the downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts, drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable.
3. adj. Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who were unemployed before the war.
4. adj. Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who are unemployed a Year after the war.
5. adj. 3m - Number of US unemployed in April 2004.
6. adj. The police assembled several unemployed men.
7. adj. Being unemployed gave me the chance to stand back and think about my life.
8. adj. I hear that the number of the unemployed has been increasing recently.
9. adj. The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
10. adj. The number of unemployed people will rise by degrees.
11. adj. The number of unemployed college graduates amounts to more than 4000.
12. adj. Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed.
13. adj. Because he was unemployed, their wedlock failed.
14. adj. Only unemployed people date on Wednesdays.
15. adj. I'm unemployed.
Sentence  
adj.
Unemployed workers marched on the capital.
We are the downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts, drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable.
Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who were unemployed before the war.
Percentage of the Iraqi workforce who are unemployed a Year after the war.
3m - Number of US unemployed in April 2004.
The police assembled several unemployed men.
Being unemployed gave me the chance to stand back and think about my life.
I hear that the number of the unemployed has been increasing recently.
The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
The number of unemployed people will rise by degrees.
The number of unemployed college graduates amounts to more than 4000.
Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed.
Because he was unemployed, their wedlock failed.
Only unemployed people date on Wednesdays.
I'm unemployed.

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