unemployable definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: not acceptable for employment as a worker; "his illiteracy made him unemployable" [ant: employable] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1887 not acceptable for employment • unemployability noun • unemployable noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & n. --adj. unfitted for paid employment. --n. an unemployable person. Derivatives: unemployability n. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Someone who is unemployable does not have a job and is unlikely to get ... that an employer might want. He freely admits he is unemployable and will probably never find a job. ADJ Moby ...