ill-equipped

[ il-i-kwipt ]

adjective

1. badly or inadequately equipped:

   an ill-equipped army.

2. ill-prepared:

   a student ill-equipped to begin calculus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-equipped¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

And usually, they are ill-equipped to provide sound legal guidance.

From The Daily Beast

He is ill equipped to persuade the country and to earn the trust of the not-so-loyal opposition.

From The Daily Beast

If the goal is to offer challenging questions to GOP presidential candidates, then Hannity is ill equipped for the role.

From The Daily Beast

General Jaber worries that the Lebanese army is ill-equipped to deal with the growing challenge.

From The Daily Beast

Millennia of interacting with other humans has left us ill equipped to deal with objects that sometimes act in humanlike ways.

From The Daily Beast

But missing, failing by ever so little, it left the three ill-equipped to continue the struggle on lower grounds.

From Project Gutenberg

Meanwhile, Turkish forces, very ill equipped, were making threatening gestures at Egypt across the desert of Sinai.

From Project Gutenberg

The writer is ill-equipped to estimate the peculiar value of Roman legalism to mankind.

From Project Gutenberg

"It is unendurable that they of the silk market should be so ill-equipped," remarked Tsae-che discontentedly as she entered.

From Project Gutenberg

Modern ingenuity has not succeeded in accomplishing very much more than was done by the ill-equipped mariners of centuries ago.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• impotent
• inadequate
• incapable
• ineligible
• unable
• unprepared
• unqualified
• useless