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

• unadvisedly adverb
• unadvisedness noun

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

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

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs

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

Other hands are fidgety and unadvised, with nervous, fussy fingers which indicate a nature sensitive to the little pricks of daily life.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

To send abroad a Book, among such Readers, were a very unadvised thing, if a Man had not such Reasons to give, as I can bring, for such an Undertaking.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton