adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
quite
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They have felt misunderstood and scapegoated, quite unprepared for the political and social dilemmas in which they were caught.
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She was quite unprepared for Miss Phoebe's reaction.
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She had been quite unprepared for his beauty and his otherness.
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So you were left quite unprepared for the lightning 10K race start, made worse this time around by a shouted count-down.
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She usually enjoyed this part of the year immensely, but for once she was feeling quite unprepared for it.
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I had come from the hotel expecting to return, and was quite unprepared .
totally
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Britain was totally unprepared for the cataclysm of the Franco-Prussian War late in 1870 and still less for its outcome.
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Sadly, most people find themselves totally unprepared financially and the consequences of that can be disastrous.
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I was totally unprepared for Delhi, yet old enough to understand what I saw.
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She may have been totally unprepared but she still managed to win her first round match quite comfortably.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mexico was unprepared for war.
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The study showed that 50% of the students were unprepared for work or college.
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When I told her the news, I was totally unprepared for her reaction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An unprepared passenger might be mangled by the door or might miss his stop altogether.
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Gorbad, still weak from the wound suffered at Grunberg, was unprepared for a frontal assault.
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He found the Etonians snobbish, shallow, seemingly unprepared for the world as it was being transformed by the war.
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It can not be stopped, but it can stop the unwary or the unprepared .
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She had been quite unprepared for his beauty and his otherness.
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The sudden, unprepared E Major Allegro that concludes the fourth and final movement seems a bit like kicking the corpse.
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They have felt misunderstood and scapegoated, quite unprepared for the political and social dilemmas in which they were caught.
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Yet the handling of the report has made the government look fumbling and unprepared .