UNPREPARED

adj. 1 unready, surprised, taken aback, (caught) napping or off guard, dumbfounded or dumfounded, at sixes and sevens, Colloq (caught) with (one's) pants down, Brit caught on the hop, US asleep at the switch The sudden squall found us unprepared and we lost a sail 2 unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted Dinner was still unprepared at eight o'clock 3 unwarned, unreadied, not set up, not forewarned I was unprepared for the strange events that followed 4 See unpremeditated, above.