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UNPREPARED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without preparation; not prepared for
Example:
our treaty makers approached their immensely difficult problems unprepared
Classified under:
Similar:
ad-lib; extemporaneous; extemporary; extempore; impromptu; off-the-cuff; offhand; offhanded; unrehearsed (with little or no preparation or forethought)
spur-of-the-moment (in response to an unforeseen need)
Also:
unready (not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond)
Antonym:
prepared (made ready or fit or suitable beforehand)
Context examples:
But wilder yet was the cry, and shriller still the scream, when there rose up from the shadow of those silent bulwarks the long lines of the English bowmen, and the arrows whizzed in a deadly sleet among the unprepared masses upon the pirate decks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It ran thus:— MY DEAR COPPERFIELD, You may possibly not be unprepared to receive the intimation that something has turned up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You cannot imagine how suddenly it has come on me! how peculiarly unprepared I was!—for I had reason to believe her very lately more determined against him, much more, than she was before.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His surprise was not so great as his father's at her refusing Crawford, because, so far from supposing her to consider him with anything like a preference, he had always believed it to be rather the reverse, and could imagine her to be taken perfectly unprepared, but Sir Thomas could not regard the connexion as more desirable than he did.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
For weeks it had been a very dull and sombre world; but now, with nearly all debts paid, three dollars jingling in his pocket, and in his mind the consciousness of success, the sun shone bright and warm, and even a rain-squall that soaked unprepared pedestrians seemed a merry happening to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
