unprovided

British  

/ ˌʌnprəˈvaɪdɪd /

adjective

1. (foll by with) not provided or supplied

2. (often foll by for) not prepared or ready

3. without income or means

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Other Word Forms

• unprovidedly adverb

Example Sentences

“Ah! there is one difficulty unprovided for,” cried Emma.

From Literature

Or, as he puts it: “I often reflected upon the unprovided condition that the whole body of the people were in at the first coming of this calamity upon them; and how it was for want of timely entering into measures and managements, as well public as private, that all the confusions that followed were brought upon us, and that such a prodigious number of people sunk in that disaster which, if proper steps had been taken, might, Providence concurring, have been avoided.”

From The Guardian

“A month later, none of that was true. Instead, I was thirty-eight, childless, alone, emotionally and monetarily unprepared to be a single mother. I’d become a cautionary tale, like the women Elizabeth Hardwick described in Sleepless Nights, who ‘wander about in their dreadful freedom like old oxen left behind, totally unprovided for.’

From Slate

I shall see that you go not away entirely unprovided.

From Slate

Will it be believed that a body of troops marching on into a country where it is supposed they would be able to purchase any quantity of animals for themselves and the army which is to follow them, should have come up with the military chest totally unprovided with money?

From Project Gutenberg