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say it: JAH-bluhs
jobless is an adjective meaning "not having a job". It carries one recorded sense.
not having a job
“idle carpenters”
“jobless transients”
“many people in the area were out of work”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jobless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.