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unadvised
[ uhn-uhd-vahyzd ]
adjective
- without advice or counsel; uninformed:
a defendant unadvised of her legal rights.
- imprudent; rash; ill-advised:
He purchased a business with unadvised haste.
unadvised
/ ˌʌnədˈvaɪzd; ˌʌnədˈvaɪzɪdlɪ /
adjective
- rash or unwise
- not having received advice
Derived Forms
- ˌunadˈvisedness, noun
- unadvisedly, adverb
Other Words From
- un·ad·vis·ed·ly [uhn-, uh, d-, vahy, -zid-lee], adverb
- unad·vised·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of unadvised1
Example Sentences
It was painfully clear that Sister Irma herself had found the color unsatisfactory and had tried her unadvised, noble best to tone it down somehow.
Poor Juliet worries that her new romance is “too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.”
Exhausted and unadvised, most of the men sought refuge from the fearful cold by crawling unbrushed into their frozen sleeping-bags, without even removing their boots let alone their socks.
I cannot help it, Helen: you have brought this pain on yourself by your very unadvised visit of this morning.
Here was a young man of twenty years of age, earnestly urging the adoption of a scheme which he had conceived, and which he feared Burghley might consider indiscreet and unadvised.
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