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

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

Lord John yielded to his chief, but in doing so brought upon himself a good deal of angry criticism, which was intensified by an unadvised declaration in the House of Commons.

From Lord John Russell by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)

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.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

Ingleby has done perfectly right to "call me to account" for a rash and unadvised assertion, in saying that we must interpolate been in the passage in King Henry VIII.,

From Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

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 Bird, Frederic Mayer