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Definition: Unadvised |
UnadvisedAdjective1. 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: UnadvisedSynonym: ill-advised (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: well-advised (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Unadvised |
| English words defined with "unadvised": ill-advised ♦ unadvisedly. (references) |
Expression using "unadvised": unadvised policy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unadvised | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) nechibzuit (brainless, desperate, impolitic, incautious, inconsiderate, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise), imprudent (ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, rash, unwise). (various references) неразумный (ill-judged, imbecile, impolitic, inadvisable, injudicious, insensate, unreasoning), не получивший совета. (various references) nesavetovan, nepromišljen (ill-advised, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, thoughtless, unthinking). (various references) no aconsejado, indiscreto (indiscreet, leaky, obtrusive, sieve, tactless). (various references) oklok (ill-advised, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inexpedient, unwise), obetänksam (ill-considered, inconsiderate, indiscreet, insensible, rash), inte underrättad. (various references) 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) нерозсудливий (bullheaded, fond, fool, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, precipitate, reckless, unreasonable, unwise), непродуманий (random, unreasoned). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inconsideratus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unadvised": unadvisedly. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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