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Definition: Unprepared |
UnpreparedAdjective1. Without preparation; not prepared for; "unprepared remarks"; "the shock was unprepared"; "our treaty makers approached their immensely difficult problems unprepared"- R.E.Danielson. 2. Lacking with intellectual equipment; "unprepared to stand on his own feet". 3. Not put in a state of preparedness; "the machinery was unprepared for the extra load". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unprepared" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
| Antonym: prepared (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Danger | Unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared; off one's guard; (inexpectant). |
Imperfection | Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement. |
Incompleteness | Adjective: incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; (see complete; ); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude; (unprepared). |
Nonpreparation | Verb: be unprepared; Adjective:; want preparation, lack preparation; lie fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits; live from hand to mouth. |
Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unprepared |
| English words defined with "unprepared": apparition ♦ candid ♦ derangement, Disprepare ♦ flat-footed ♦ Improvided ♦ overthrow ♦ phantom, Pharmacognosis ♦ sight-read, specter, spectre ♦ upset. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unprepared": Improvided. (references) |
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Screenplays | Earth is unprepared (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Let us not be taken unprepared. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | As a result of inadequate basic education (due to apartheid education policies of the past), South African’s main population remains unskilled and unprepared for the workplace, particularly as demand for professionals is growing. (references) | |
Children | Bulgaria | Many Romani children arrive relatively unprepared for schooling; many of them are not proficient in the Bulgarian language. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | Businesses and unions are working to improve collective bargaining through training programs for negotiators, but many local representatives have not received this training and remain unprepared to represent members effectively in negotiations. (references) |
Bulgaria | Victims of trafficking range from those who were deceived into believing that they would have good and respectable employment, to those who expected to work as prostitutes but were unprepared for the degree of violence and exploitation to which they would be subjected. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unprepared" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unprepared" is used about 220 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 220 | 20,356 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unprepared": be unprepared for smth. ♦ unprepared airfield. 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 |
unprepared | 9 |
dangerously drastically emergency responders underfunded unprepared | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unprepared"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i papërgatitur (extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, off the cuff, unequipped). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير مهيأ, غير مستعد (reluctant, unready, unripe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неготов (unready), неприготвен (unready). (various references) | |
Chinese | 准备, 不備 (off guard). (various references) | |
Czech | nepřipravený (unready, unseen), improvizovaný (ad lib, impromptu, improvised, offhand, scratch, unrehearsed). (various references) | |
Danish | flyveplads uden anlagt rullebane (unprepared airfield). (various references) | |
Dutch | onvoorbereid, onbeslagen. (various references) | |
Finnish | valmistumaton, valmistautumaton. (various references) | |
French | qui n'est pas prêt, qui n'est pas préparé, improvisé. (various references) | |
German | unvorbereitet (extemporaneous, extemporary, extemporize, unpremeditated, unpreparedly, unpreventable). (various references) | |
Greek | ανέτοιμοσ (unready), αμελέτητοσ (not well planned, unmentionable, unpremeditated, unstudied), απροετοίμαστοσ, απαράσκευοσ, αδιάβαστοσ (unread). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felkészületlen (unready). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak dipersiapkan. (various references) | |
Italian | sprovveduto (inexperienced), impreparato (unschooled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eparedunpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem preparação (cavalier, familiarly, offhand, offhanded), não preparado (raw, rawhide, undressed, unequipped, unprovided, unready, unrehearsed, unstudied), improvisado (ad lib, cavalier, extemporary, extempore, half-cocked, impromptu, improvised, jury, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, scratch, unpremeditated), desprevenido (half-cocked, unprovided, unready, unwarned), despreparado (half-cocked). (various references) | |
Romanian | nepregãtit (extempore, off hand, untrained). (various references) | |
Russian | неподготовленный (extempore, half cocked, off the cuff, unequipped, unrehearsed, untrained). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nespreman (extemporaneous, unprovided, unready), nepripremljen (unready). (various references) | |
Spanish | desprevenido (unaware, unsuspecting, unsuspectingly). (various references) | |
Swedish | oförberedd (extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off hand, off the cuff, offhand, offhanded, unprovided, unrehearsed). (various references) | |
Turkish | hazırlanmamış, hazırlıksız (at half cock, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, incautious, off the cuff, offhand, offhanded, unprovided, unprovided for, unready, unrehearsed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | непідготовлений (extemporaneous, extempore, half cocked, off the cuff, unqualified). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không sẵn s ng (unready), không chuẩn bị trước (off-hand, off-handed, unseen). (various references) | |
Welsh | amharod (unready). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | MhpwV ean elqwsin sun emoi makedoneV kai eurwsin umaV aparaskeuastouV kataiscunqwmen hmeiV ina mh legwmen umeiV en th upostasei tauth thV kauchsewV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne cum venerint mecum Macedones et invenerint vos inparatos erubescamus nos ut non dicamus vos in hac substantia |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lest whanne Macedonyes comen with me, and fynden you vnredi, we be schamed, that we seien you not, in this substaunce. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Lest paraveture yf they of Macedonia come with me and fynde you vnprepared the boost that I made in this matter shuld be a shame to vs: I saye not vnto you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Corinthians Chapter 9, Verse 4 |
| Croatian | ako sa mnom doðu Makedonci i naðu vas nespremne - ne osramotimo s preuzetnosti mi, da ne kažemo vi. |
| Finnish | muutoin, jos makedonialaisia tulee minun kanssani ja he tapaavat teidät valmistumattomina, me - ettemme sanoisi te - ehkä joutuisimme häpeään tässä luottamuksessamme. |
| French | Je ne voudrais pas, si les Macédoniens m`accompagnent et ne vous trouvent pas prêts, que cette assurance tournât notre confusion, pour ne pas dire la vôtre. |
| Haitian Creole | Ala wont mwen ta wont si, pou lè moun peyi Masedwan yo ta vin ansanm avè m', yo ta jwenn nou pa pare! Jan m' te konte sou nou sa! Mwen pa bezwen pale jan nou menm tou nou ta wont! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Saya khawatir kalau-kalau ada orang-orang Makedonia yang ikut bersama-sama saya nanti pada waktu saya datang kepadamu. Dan kalau mereka mendapati bahwa kalian belum siap, wah, alangkah malunya kami nanti, karena sudah mengatakan bahwa kami percaya sekali kepadamu! Dan kalian sendiri pun akan malu juga. |
| Italian | non avvenga che, venendo con me alcuni Macèdoni, vi trovino impreparati e noi dobbiamo arrossire, per non dire anche voi, di questa nostra fiducia. |
| Maori | Kei tupono ka haere atu i ahau etahi o Makeronia, a ka rokohanga atu kahore ano kia rite noa ta koutou, na, ko te whakama mo matou, e kore matou e ki mo koutou, i tenei whakamanamana e kaha nei. |
| Norwegian | så vi, for ikke å si I selv, ikke skal bli til skamme i denne tillit når det kommer makedoniere med mig og finner eder uferdige. |
| Shuar | Wi ukunam Masetúnianmaya shuarjai atumiin jean, kuit Súsatin Tímiarmena nuna iwiarachman Wáinkian natsaraij tusan, tura atumsha natsarairum tusan Túrajai. Warí, "Súsatniun ti wakeruiniawai" tuke tu wéatsjak. |
| Swahili | Isije ikawa kwamba watu wa Makedonia watakapokuja pamoja nami tukawakuta hamko tayari, hapo sisi tutaaibika--bila kutaja aibu mtakayopata ninyi wenyewe--kwa sababu tutakuwa tumewatumainia kupita kiasi. |
| Swedish | Eljest, om några macedonier komma med mig och finna eder oberedda, kunna vi -- för att icke säga I -- till äventyrs komma på skam med vår tillförsikt i denna sak. |
| Uma | Apa' ane ria-ra mpai' to Makedonia to mpo'emai' -a tilou, pai' ane rapa' -na ko'ia terumpu doi petulungi-ni tetu-e, uma mpai' mowo ea' -kai, apa' mpolia' ki'une' -mokoie. Koi' wo'o mpai' me'ea' ompi'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unprepared": unpreparedness, unpreparednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Unprepared" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unprerared. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unprepared" (pronounced u'nprēpe"rd) |
| 7 | -p r ē p e" r d | prepared. |
| 4 | -p e" r d | compared, despaired, impaired, paired, pared, repaired, spared, unimpaired. |
| 3 | -e" r d | aired, bared, blared, cared, chaired, dared, declared, laird, ensnared, erred, fared, flared, glared, haired, scared, shared, snared, squared, stared, undeclared. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-p-p-r-r-u" | |
-2 letters: dapperer, endpaper, panderer, paupered, prepared, upreared. | |
-3 letters: papered, paperer, pardner, perdure, perpend, prepare, repaper, undrape. | |
-4 letters: append, dapper, darner, dearer, draper, earned, earner, endear, endure, enured, errand, eupnea, napped, napper, neared, nearer, pander, pardee, parred, parure, pauper, perdue, pruned, pruner, pureed, purred, rapped, rappee, rappen, rapper, reader, reaped, reaper, reared, redear, reearn, render. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-p-p-r-r-u" | |
+3 letters: perpendicular, underprepared, understrapper. | |
+4 letters: perpendiculars, understrappers, unpreparedness. | |
+5 letters: perpendicularly. | |
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