unadvised

American  

[uhn-uhd-vahyzd] / ˌʌn ədˈvaɪzd /

adjective

1. without advice or counsel; uninformed.

   a defendant unadvised of her legal rights.

2. imprudent; rash; ill-advised.

   He purchased a business with unadvised haste.

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unadvised British  

/ ˌʌnədˈvaɪzd, ˌʌnədˈvaɪzɪdlɪ /

adjective

1. rash or unwise

2. not having received advice

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Other Word Forms

• unadvisedness
  noun
• unadvisedly
  adverb

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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unadvised

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

Uncircumscribed by prudent rules, Or precepts of expensive schools; Abused at home, abroad despised, Unbred, unletter'd, unadvised; The headstrong course of life begun, What comfort from thy darling son?

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

The shoemaker was a poor man, and needed his money as soon as earned—he was not unadvised of this fact.

From Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Now this vanity is so much the more to be checked and restrained, because, by unadvised mixture of Divine and human things, not only a phantastical philosophy is produced, but also an heretical religion.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

Thus, in reality, this unadvised sally of the citizens was the cause of the death of a large number of their countrymen.

From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by Kingston, William Henry Giles