unprovided

/ ˌʌnprəˈvaɪdɪd /

adjective

1. foll by with not provided or supplied
2. often foll by for not prepared or ready
3. unprovided for
   without income or means

Derived Forms

• ˌunproˈvidedly, adverb

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

Give us grace to make ready for that last hour, and protect us against a sudden and unprovided death....

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