unadvised

[uhn-uhd-vahyzd]

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.

unadvised

/ ˌʌnədˈvaɪzd, ˌʌnədˈvaɪzɪdlɪ /

adjective

1. rash or unwise

2. not having received advice

Other Word Forms

• unadvisedness noun
• unadvisedly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unadvised¹

First recorded in 1300–50, unadvised is from the Middle English word onavised. See un- ¹, advised

Example Sentences

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.

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Poor Juliet worries that her new romance is “too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.”

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Exhausted and unadvised, most of the men sought refuge from the fearful cold by crawling unbrushed into their frozen sleeping-bags, without even removing their boots let alone their socks.

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I cannot help it, Helen: you have brought this pain on yourself by your very unadvised visit of this morning.

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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.

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