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Workless vs Wordless - What's the difference?

workless | wordless |

As adjectives the difference between workless and wordless

is that workless is having no work: unemployed while wordless is conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.

workless

English

Adjective

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  • Having no work: unemployed.
  • * 2007', ''Helping people from '''workless households into work (published by the National Audit Office of the United Kingdom)
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.
    • workless faith — Sir Thomas More.

    Quotations

    * 2002 , Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky, Kinetics of human motion , page 462 *: Hence, workless forces are also powerless forces.

    wordless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
  • Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate.