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not prepared; not ready: He was completely / totally / wholly unprepared for what he saw. The extreme cold weather caught them unprepared. Opposite. prepared. Compare. unready. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not expected or planned. abrupt end. abrupt halt. abruptly. abruptness. ad hoc. inadvertence. inadvertency. inadvertently.
: not prepared. was unprepared for class. … they were woefully unprepared to take on the responsibilities expected of them. Richard M. Ketchum. unpreparedness. ˌən-pri-ˈper-əd-nəs. also -ˈperd-nəs. noun. Synonyms. ad hoc. ad-lib. down and dirty. extemporaneous. extemporary. extempore. impromptu. improvisational. improvised. off-the-cuff. offhanded.
Unprepared definition: having made inadequate preparations. See examples of UNPREPARED used in a sentence.
If you are unprepared for something, you are not ready for it, and you are therefore surprised or at a disadvantage when it happens. I was totally unprepared for the announcement on the next day. [ + for] Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work.
not prepared; not ready: He was completely / totally / wholly unprepared for what he saw. The extreme cold weather caught them unprepared. Opposite. prepared. Compare. unready. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not expected or planned. abrupt end. abrupt halt. abruptly. abruptness. ad hoc. inadvertence. inadvertency. inadvertently.
adjective. without preparation; not prepared for. “ unprepared remarks”. “the shock was unprepared ”. “"our treaty makers approached their immensely difficult problems unprepared "- R.E.Danielson”. synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed.
unprepared (to do something) (formal) not willing to do something. She was unprepared to accept that her marriage was over. opposite prepared. See unprepared in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
