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Were Gainfully Employed Antonyms

Trying to find opposite word for were gainfully employed in English? No problem. Our site contains antonyms of were gainfully employed in 15 different contexts. We have listed all the opposite words for were gainfully employed alphabetically.

cost
  • amount
  • arm and a leg
  • bad news
  • bite
  • bottom dollar
  • bottom line
  • charge
  • damage
  • disbursement
  • dues
  • expenditure
  • figure
  • line
  • nick
  • nut
  • outlay
  • payment
  • price
  • price tag
  • rate
  • score
  • setback
  • squeeze
  • tab
discourage
  • abash
  • afflict
  • alarm
  • appall
  • awe
  • beat down
  • bother
  • break one's heart
  • bully
  • cast down
  • chill
  • confuse
  • cow
  • dampen
  • dash
  • daunt
  • deject
  • demoralize
  • deprecate
  • depress
  • dismay
  • disparage
  • distress
  • droop
dissuade
  • advise against
  • caution against
  • chicken out
  • counsel
  • cry out against
  • deprecate
  • derail
  • deter
  • disadvise
  • discourage
  • disincline
  • divert
  • exhort
  • expostulate
  • faze
  • hinder
  • lean on
  • persuade not to
  • prevent
  • prick
  • put off
  • remonstrate
  • throw a wet blanket on
  • throw cold water on
fail
  • abort
  • back wrong horse
  • backslide
  • be defeated
  • be demoted
  • be found lacking
  • be in vain
  • be ruined
  • blunder
  • break down
  • come to naught
  • come to nothing
  • decline
  • deteriorate
  • fall
  • fall flat
  • fall short
  • fall through
  • fizzle
  • flop
  • flounder
  • fold
  • founder
  • go astray
forfeit
  • cost
  • damages
  • fine
  • loss
  • mulct
  • penalty
  • relinquishment
give
  • accord
  • administer
  • allow
  • ante up
  • award
  • bequeath
  • bestow
  • cede
  • come across
  • commit
  • confer
  • consign
  • convey
  • deed
  • deliver
  • dish out
  • dispense
  • dispose of
  • dole out
  • donate
  • endow
  • entrust
  • fork over
  • furnish
give in
  • abandon
  • back down
  • bail out
  • bow out
  • buckle under
  • capitulate
  • cave in
  • cease
  • cede
  • chicken out
  • collapse
  • comply
  • concede
  • cry uncle
  • cut out
  • desist
  • despair
  • drop
  • fold
  • forswear
  • give up
  • hand over
  • leave off
  • pull out
lose
  • be careless
  • be impoverished
  • be reduced
  • become poorer
  • bereave
  • capitulate
  • consume
  • default
  • deplete
  • disinherit
  • displace
  • dispossess
  • dissipate
  • divest
  • drain
  • drop
  • exhaust
  • expend
  • fail
  • fail to keep
  • fall short
  • forfeit
  • forget
  • give up
miss
  • absence
  • blunder
  • default
  • defect
  • error
  • fault
  • loss
  • mishap
  • mistake
  • omission
  • oversight
  • slip
  • want
neglect
  • carelessness
  • coolness
  • delinquency
  • disdain
  • disregardance
  • disrespect
  • heedlessness
  • inadvertence
  • inattention
  • inconsideration
  • indifference
  • laxity
  • laxness
  • oversight
  • scorn
  • slight
  • thoughtlessness
  • unconcern
pass
  • canyon
  • cut
  • gap
  • gorge
  • passage
  • passageway
  • path
  • ravine
spend
  • absorb
  • allocate
  • ante up
  • apply
  • bestow
  • blow
  • cast away
  • come across
  • come through
  • concentrate
  • confer
  • consume
  • contribute
  • cough up
  • defray
  • deplete
  • disburse
  • dispense
  • dissipate
  • donate
  • drain
  • drop
  • employ
  • empty
surrender
  • abandonment
  • abdication
  • acquiescence
  • appeasement
  • capitulation
  • cessation
  • dedition
  • delivery
  • giving way
  • relenting
  • relinquishment
  • renunciation
  • submission
  • succumbing
  • white flag
  • yielding
throw away
  • abandon
  • cast
  • cast off
  • chase
  • clear
  • discard
  • dismiss
  • dispense with
  • ditch
  • drop
  • dump
  • eject
  • eliminate
  • evict
  • extrude
  • free oneself of
  • get rid of
  • jettison
  • junk
  • lose
  • refuse
  • reject
  • rid oneself of
  • scrap
yield
  • crop
  • earnings
  • harvest
  • income
  • output
  • outturn
  • produce
  • profit
  • return
  • revenue
  • takings
  • turnout

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