What's the difference between jobless and joyless?
Jobless
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) "Yes, these are areas where there's high levels of joblessness, but most people are still in jobs.
(4) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(5) In an economy still struggling with high joblessness and the threat of renewed recession still looming, convincing some of the party's stressed base might not be easy.
(6) A rising jobless total and an unemployment rate sticking at a stubbornly high 8% overshadowed a better than expected 27,100 fall in the claimant count in April, which compared with analysts' forecasts for a 20,000 drop.
(7) Spending, though, has continued to rise in line with Labour's plans, buoyed by growing expenditure on unemployment benefit as the jobless total has risen by over 600,000 in the past year.
(8) There is now widespread suspicion among experts that the claimant count figures are not representing the true state of joblessness since many unemployed people are unable to claim benefit.
(9) The governor admitted that the recent fall in unemployment would force a re-think of the Bank's forward guidance policy – the pledge not to even discuss raising interest rates from 0.5% until the jobless rate falls to 7%.
(10) The worsening unemployment picture sent the jobless rate up from 7.7% to 7.8% and left the total number unemployed at 2.52 million.
(11) It doesn't look like that, of course, when the doctor's surgery starts putting up signs in Polish, or your child can't get in to the nearest primary school, and the trajectory of the jobless figures seems relentlessly upwards – even when it is not.
(12) When combined with economic hardship, this loss makes the jobless more likely to suffer depression and even to take their own lives, as starkly shown by Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler in The Body Economic .
(13) The Office for National Statistics said the broadest measure of unemployment showed joblessness at 2.47 million in the three months to August, up 88,000 from the previous three months but a similar level to that it reported for July and one which left the jobless rate steady at 7.9%.
(14) The number of people claiming jobless benefits across Britain dropped by 5,900, defying City forecasts of an increase.
(15) The Lib Dems are especially aware that spending cuts in some departments of over 15%, a near-two-year freeze in public sector pay, higher jobless forecasts and early reductions in welfare benefits will combine to shock many of the party's traditional supporters.
(16) In countries like Spain and Greece, overall jobless rates are approaching 25%, with youth unemployment over 50%.
(17) None of these suggest a bumper year for the high street, since the jobless total is going up, house prices are going down, consumer confidence has cratered and real disposable income in 2011 saw its biggest fall since 1977.
(18) The Bank has been surprised by the recent performance of the economy, having predicted last August that it could be early 2016 before the jobless rate hit 7%.
(19) The chancellor said he was extending the current three-day wait before the jobless can claim benefits to seven days.
(20) At points the jobless rate has fallen noticeably while growth lags.
Joyless
Definition:
(a.) Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fox was famously burned by the British press in 2001, on the release of Intimacy, an odd, joyless film adaptation of several Hanif Kureishi short stories, in which she and Mark Rylance played characters who meet every week to couple on his dirty carpet.
(2) Comparisons with England’s joyless offering in South Africa are simplistic but unavoidable after a 1-1 draw featuring a goalkeeping error to make the jaw drop and a rigid performance lacking spark or imagination from Russia.
(3) He used his talk to criticise the joyless nature of many modern documentaries and said that many film-makers, particularly on the left, had lost their sense of humour.
(4) Almost everyone else is fed up with this joyless, hectoring, endless campaign from Berlin.
(5) She got rather cross with Simon Schama recently for what she saw, in his writings about early Dutch culture, as a faulty sense of Calvinism - "the dear old song of Renaissance Europe" as she calls it - and confronted him on a panel in New York for characterising Calvinists as a bunch of joyless busybodies.
(6) The Germans are joyless capitalists infused with the Protestant work ethic?
(7) It makes schools joyless places.” Doesn’t the emphasis on talk, project work and joy, plus some of Hyman’s other enthusiasms such as “wellbeing”, mean to a return to the reviled 1960s?
(8) Ted's triumphant opening week in the States was accompanied by a profile in the New Yorker magazine that deftly portrayed MacFarlane as a joyless billionaire, trapped by his success and burdened by weird hygiene and dating issues.
(9) His enigmatic, publicity courting music project Wu Lyf had been unmasked as just another four-piece lad band, and he was living in an abandoned Manchester terrace, writing aggressive, joyless songs about the capitalist machine.
(10) The results are both joyless and seemingly endless, as its two-and-a-half-hour running time stretches out like a desert horizon barren of shade or water."
(11) One of them noticed me staring joylessly and looked perturbed.
(12) What he's given them isn't something like the Home Run Chase between McGwire and Sosa, which was retroactively cheapened by later revelations or Barry Bonds' quest to beat Hank Aaron's home run record, which was an utterly joyless pursuit even at the time.
(13) The atmosphere by all accounts is harsh and joyless.
(14) For, ance that five-and-forty's speel'd, See crasy, weary, joyless Eild, Wi' wrinkled face, Comes hostin', hirplin', owre the field, Wi' creepin' pace.
(15) For this, we have ripped the natural world apart, degraded our conditions of life, surrendered our freedoms and prospects of contentment to a compulsive, atomising, joyless hedonism, in which, having consumed all else, we start to prey upon ourselves.
(16) Such clinical features of joylessness, interpersonal aversion, and affective blunting have been considered by Rado and Meehl to represent a neurophysiological deficit in pleasure capacity which they termed anhedonia, but is more aptly characterized by the term hypohedonia.
(17) But what he called "the fight against bad English" is too often understood, thanks to the perversities of his own example, as a philistine and joyless campaign in favour of that shibboleth of dull pedants "plain English".
(18) And so an ever-decreasing spiral of irony ensues, the bottom of which is not only a death knell for social media sarcasm but a joylessness so profound I may have to watch endless mpegs of babies laughing at absolutely nothing to fend off clinical depression.
(19) It was the most joyless celebration compared to what we've seen outside his old homes in Soweto and Houghton."
(20) In a blog post titled " Parents like Amy Chua are the reason why Asian-Americans like me are in therapy ", she called Chua "a narrow-minded, joyless bigot".