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Unadvised

Definition: Unadvised

Unadvised

Adjective

1. Without careful prior deliberation or counsel; "ill-advised efforts"; it would be ill-advised to accept the offer"; "took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations".

2. Having received no information; "a defendant unadvised of her legal rights".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unadvised" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonym: Unadvised

Synonym: ill-advised (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: well-advised (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unadvised

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Danger

Unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared; off one's guard; (inexpectant).

Unskillfulness

Unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish; (inconsistent).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unadvised

English words defined with "unadvised": ill-advisedunadvisedly. (references)

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Expression: Unadvised

Expression using "unadvised": unadvised policy. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unadvised

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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unadvised

7
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Modern Translation: Unadvised

Language Translations for "unadvised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pakujdesshëm (careless, imprudent, incautious, negligent, ownerless, reckless, remiss, unguarded, unheeding), i pakëshilluar. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير مروي فيه (inconsiderate), ‏غير حكيم (impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inexperienced, injudicious, unwise, weak), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unwise). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неуместен (ill-judged, impertinent, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconsequent, inept, inexpedient, injudicious, inopportune, irrelevant, mistaken, out of place, uncalled for, unfortunate, unseasonable, unsuitable), необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, wild), неблагоразумен (ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, injudicious, unwise). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

轻率 (indiscreet). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ukvapený (hasty, impetuous, precipitate, precipitous, premature, rash, sudden), neuvážený (ill-judged, injudicious, unthinking). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تندوبی ملاحظه , بی پروا (Adventurer, Audacious, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Harebrained, Headlong, Heady, Heedless, Impetuous, Inconsiderate, Rash, Reckless, Slapdash, Unscrupulous), بی احتیاط (Improvident, Imprudent, Incautious, Indiscreet, Injudicious, Rash), بدون اطلاع . (various references)

   

French

  

malavisé (unwise), inconsidéré (unmindful, unthought), imprudent (unguarded, unwarily, unwary, unwise). (various references)

   

German

  

unberaten (unadvisedly), nicht beraten. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απερίσκεπτοσ (careless, devil may care, inconsiderate, rash, thoughtless, unconsidered, unreflecting). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ"ר (abrupt, hasty, impetuous, precipitant, rash, sudden, unthinking). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nem tanácsolt, meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary). (various references)

   

Italian

  

avventato (careless, foolhardy, harum scarum, inconsiderate, madcap, rash, reckless). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

경"한 (imprudent). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuchoyrlit, meecheeayllagh (absurd, half-witted, idiot, imbecile, mad, nonsensical, silly, simple), gyn yss (by stealth, clandestinely, covert, in secret, on the sly, secretly, surreptitious, surreptitiously, unawares, unconsciously, unexpected). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

advisedunay

   

Portuguese

  

sem pedir conselho, precipitado (brash, cursory, desperate, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, impolitic, imprudent, precipitant, precipitate, previous, rash, unthinking, unwary, unwise), irrefletido (flighty, giddy, hurry, ill-considered, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-minded, reckless, thoughtless, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary, unwise), impensado. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nechibzuit (brainless, desperate, impolitic, incautious, inconsiderate, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise), imprudent (ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, rash, unwise). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неразумный (ill-judged, imbecile, impolitic, inadvisable, injudicious, insensate, unreasoning), не получивший совета. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nesavetovan, nepromišljen (ill-advised, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, thoughtless, unthinking). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

no aconsejado, indiscreto (indiscreet, leaky, obtrusive, sieve, tactless). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oklok (ill-advised, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inexpedient, unwise), obetänksam (ill-considered, inconsiderate, indiscreet, insensible, rash), inte underrättad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tedbirsiz (ill-advised, ill-judged, improvident, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, injudicious, unwary), tavsiye almamış, patavatsız (blunt, gauche, harum scarum, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, indiscreet, out of turn, plainspoken, plump, politically incorrect, tactless, thoughtless, without tact), fikir danışmamış, düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нерозсудливий (bullheaded, fond, fool, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, precipitate, reckless, unreasonable, unwise), непродуманий (random, unreasoned). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khinh suất (hare-brained, harum-scarum, hasty, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitate, reckless, thoughtless, unreflecting), không theo lời răn bảo, không suy nghĩ (thoughtless, undeliberated, unreflecting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unadvised

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

inconsideratus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Unadvised

Derivations

Words beginning with "unadvised": unadvisedly. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Unadvised" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nativised, unadmired, unavowed, unravished. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unadvised

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-n-s-u-v"

-2 letters: advised, dandies, invaded, invades, unaided, unsaved.

-3 letters: adieus, advise, davens, davies, dedans, desand, divans, indued, indues, invade, naevus, naives, navies, nudies, sadden, sained, sanded, savine, sudden, sundae, undead, undies, unsaid, viands, visaed.

-4 letters: adieu, aided, aides, anise, aside, avens, daven, deads, deans, devas, dined, dines, divan, divas, dived, dives, duads, dudes, dunes, ideas.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-n-s-u-v"
 

+2 letters: unadvisedly.

 

+3 letters: individuates, unadvertised.

 

+4 letters: individualise.

 

+5 letters: individualised, individualises, individualizes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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