unprepared

unprepared
[[t]ʌ̱nprɪpe͟ə(r)d[/t]]
1) ADJ-GRADED: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ for n 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...

Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work...

We were caught completely unprepared.

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2) ADJ-GRADED: v-link ADJ to-inf If you are unprepared to do something, you are not willing to do it.

They are unprepared to accept the real reasons for their domestic and foreign situation...

He was unprepared to co-operate, or indeed to communicate.


English dictionary. 2008.

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