1) At leisure 2) Discharged 3) Dismissed 4) Fired 5) Having no job 6) Idle 7) Jobless 8) Laid-off 9) Like many an artist 10) Not employed 11) Not working 12) On benefit 13) On the dole 14) Out of work 15) Pink-slipped 16) Redundant 17) Seeking work 18) Unwaged 19) Without a job 1) At leisure 2) Dismissed 3) Fired 4) Idle 5) Jobless 6) Outofajob 
• (a.) Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital. • (a.) Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
You are unemployed if you are not working, either as an employee or as a person who is selfemployed.
[adj] - not engaged in a gainful occupation
You are unemployed if you are not working, either as an employee or as a person who is self-employed.
adjective not engaged in a gainful occupation; `unemployed workers marched on the capital`
not employed; without a job; out of work: an unemployed secretary. · not currently in use: unemployed productive capacity. · not productively used: unemployed capital.