UNPREPARED


Meaning of UNPREPARED in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌnprɪpeə(r)d ]

1.

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...

Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work...

We were caught completely unprepared.

≠ prepared

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft ADJ for n

2.

If you are unprepared to do something, you are not willing to do it.

He was unprepared to co-operate, or indeed to communicate.

≠ prepared

ADJ : v-link ADJ to-inf

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