unprepared
Britishadjective
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having made inadequate preparations
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not made ready or prepared
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done without preparation; extemporaneous
Other Word Forms
- unpreparedly adverb
- unpreparedness noun
Example Sentences
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With no up-front costs for attempting to enroll, phonies threw thousands of identities at the system’s 116 schools, which were technologically unprepared for the assaults.
From Los Angeles Times
That was particularly valuable for a player who has conceded that he arrived in the league unprepared for the complexity of NFL defenses.
More remarkable is that the U.S. was again unprepared, without a tank on the peninsula when the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel.
Most public bodies were unprepared for "a crisis that required spending on such a scale and with such urgency".
From BBC
“I loved the game, and everything I gave to the game I left there on the field. This moment today, over the last few days, I was absolutely unprepared. Emotionally unstable.”
From Los Angeles Times
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