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UNPREPARED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of unprepared in English. unprepared. adjective. uk / ˌʌn.prɪˈpeəd / us / ˌʌn.prɪˈperd / Add to word list. not prepared; not ready: He was completely / totally / wholly unprepared for what he saw. The extreme cold weather caught them unprepared. Opposite. prepared. Compare. unready.
: not prepared. was unprepared for class. … they were woefully unprepared to take on the responsibilities expected of them. Richard M. Ketchum. unpreparedness. ˌən-pri-ˈper-əd-nəs. also -ˈperd-nəs. noun. Synonyms. ad hoc. ad-lib. down and dirty. extemporaneous. extemporary. extempore. impromptu. improvisational. improvised. off-the-cuff. offhanded.
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. [ + for] Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work.
Unprepared definition: having made inadequate preparations. See examples of UNPREPARED used in a sentence.
UNPREPARED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of unprepared in English. unprepared. adjective. us / ˌʌn.prɪˈperd / uk / ˌʌn.prɪˈpeəd / Add to word list. not prepared; not ready: He was completely / totally / wholly unprepared for what he saw. The extreme cold weather caught them unprepared. Opposite. prepared. Compare.
unprepared (for something) not ready or not expecting something. She was totally unprepared for his response.
without preparation; not prepared for. “ unprepared remarks”. “the shock was unprepared ”. “"our treaty makers approached their immensely difficult problems unprepared "- R.E.Danielson”. synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed.
