ill-prepared
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editill-prepared (comparative more ill-prepared, superlative most ill-prepared)
- Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.
- He was ill-prepared for the exam. I'm not surprised he failed.
- 2006, William M Kelso, Jamestown - The Buried Truth:
- The colonists, many of them gentlemen ill-prepared to be settlers, achieved failure at almost everything they tried.
References
edit- “ill-prepared”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.