Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without work; not working; unemployed: as, a lazy, workless fellow.
  • Without works; not carried out or exemplified in works.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without work; not laboring.
  • adjective obsolete Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no work: unemployed.
  • adjective obsolete Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact.

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