UNEMPLOYABLE Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

unemployable

adjective

Definition of unemployable

as in unavailable

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Recent Examples of unemployable In response to a market-moving piece of dystopian fan fiction fearmongering about AI, Citadel Securities put out its own brief on the historical precedent for AI’s impact and the improbability that the technology will render humans unemployable any more than the typewriter or the internet did. — Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026 Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026 It was founded by a bunch of twentysomething slackers who were, by traditional metrics, unemployable anywhere else. — Scott Dikkers, Air Mail, 20 Dec. 2025 But then Markey began to have the usual doubts of an unemployable hack. — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unemployable

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID dashboard, new data on strains is currently unavailable due to low sequencing submissions.

— Christy Santhosh, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Nearly every major contributor was unavailable after being used to the brink over the course of the homestand.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of unavailable

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Phoenix Semiconductor engineers helped NAVAIR recover a supply of unusable legacy chips for a safety-critical system on the F/A-18 Super Hornet.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
John Gruber, a tech blogger, posited that Claude would now more readily default to watermarked words, rather than unleash the full scope of its linguistic range, which might result in lower-quality text, or in some cases unusable prose.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of unusable

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The Republican appointees said the legal protections apply only in formal immigration proceedings, and would be too impracticable and burdensome to apply at the border.

— Leah Litman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
Steer clear of impracticable, luxurious purchases that might tempt you.

— Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 May 2026

Definition of impracticable

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Peekachu, for example, has a nonfunctional right eye, while Secord enjoys moving enrichment items around the habitat with her mouth.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
In most populations around the world, many of these genes have accumulated mutations over time that have left about 60 percent of them nonfunctional.

— Willow Zhang, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of nonfunctional

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