unemployed vs plural

unemployed and plural both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
unemployed	Yes	Yes	No	No
plural	Yes	Yes	No	No

unemployed (noun)	plural (noun)
people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)	the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

unemployed (adjective)	plural (adjective)
not engaged in a gainful occupation	grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
	composed of more than one member, set, or kind