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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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
The first, and furthest-downstream, crisis is that a highly selective college could admit so many young adults who are so tragically unprepared.
“Don’t be shocked or mentally unprepared. That way, if all goes well, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”
From Salon
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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