unprepared
Britishadjective
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having made inadequate preparations
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not made ready or prepared
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done without preparation; extemporaneous
Other Word Forms
- unpreparedly adverb
- unpreparedness noun
Example Sentences
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“Don’t be shocked or mentally unprepared. That way, if all goes well, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”
From Salon
AI isn’t going anywhere: It’s already an essential tool for the modern economy, and excommunicating it from the classroom would leave graduates unprepared for the future.
“These are the kinds of scenarios we are really unprepared for.”
But it feels as though she was unprepared for the reaction.
From BBC
Because areas like these have no long-term record of seismic activity, local communities are often unprepared.
From Science Daily
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