unprepared

/ ˌʌnprɪˈpɛəd /

adjective

1. having made inadequate preparations

2. not made ready or prepared

3. done without preparation; extemporaneous

Other Word Forms

• unpreparedly adverb
• unpreparedness noun

Example Sentences

AI isn’t going anywhere: It’s already an essential tool for the modern economy, and excommunicating it from the classroom would leave graduates unprepared for the future.

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“These are the kinds of scenarios we are really unprepared for.”

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The Soviets had been caught unprepared by Hitler in World War II. “Like twenty years ago,” the statement continued, “ominous clouds of war are once again overhanging the approaches to our motherland.”

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But it feels as though she was unprepared for the reaction.

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Because areas like these have no long-term record of seismic activity, local communities are often unprepared.

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Related Words

• unaware 
• vulnerable