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