ill-equipped

English

Etymology

ill (adverb) +‎ equipped

Adjective

ill-equipped (comparative more ill-equipped, superlative most ill-equipped)

1. Not well equipped; lacking important resources and supplies.
   • 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     King Vajiralongkorn has stacked his privy council with generals plucked straight from the junta's cabinet; the junta has looked to the palace to help adjudicate in a long-running and volatile dispute over who should fill a vacant post at the head of Thai Buddhism, which the military government had appeared ill-equipped to handle alone.

2. Mentally unprepared for a situation or task.

Antonyms

• well-equipped

Translations

not well equipped

• French: mal outillé m
• Italian: mal equipaggiato m, mal equipaggiata f