ill-equipped
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ill (adverb) + equipped.
Adjective
[edit]ill-equipped (comparative more ill-equipped, superlative most ill-equipped)
- 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.
- Mentally unprepared for a situation or task.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]not well equipped
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