unadvised
Americanadjective
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without advice or counsel; uninformed.
a defendant unadvised of her legal rights.
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imprudent; rash; ill-advised.
He purchased a business with unadvised haste.
adjective
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rash or unwise
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not having received advice
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of unadvised
First recorded in 1300–50, unadvised is from the Middle English word onavised. See un- 1, advised
Example Sentences
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It was painfully clear that Sister Irma herself had found the color unsatisfactory and had tried her unadvised, noble best to tone it down somehow.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
Well, do not swear; although I joy in thee, I have no joy in this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,” &c.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Here was a young man of twenty years of age, earnestly urging the adoption of a scheme which he had conceived, and which he feared Burghley might consider indiscreet and unadvised.
From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley
The unadvised, ordinary people wiped the sweat from their foreheads and said it must be the heat.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Stuart Oliver Henry
Imagine Mabel getting miffed at me, or I at her, over some little two-penny affair of unadvised expressions!
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird
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