workless

adj

1. (not-comparable)Devoid of work.

   “In the future, will machines end the need for employment and lead to a workless society?”

   “1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Eight, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 87, And morning after morning, all over the immense, damp, dreary town and the packing-case colonies of huts in the suburb allotments, young men were waking up to another workless empty day to be spent as they could best contrive […]”

2. (not-comparable)Having no work to do; unemployed.

   “The number of workless swelled to terrible dimensions”

   “A workless household is defined as a household that includes at least one person of working-age (men aged 16-64 years and women aged 16-59 years) where no one in the household aged 16 or over is in employment.”

3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.