ill-prepared

English

Etymology

From ill +‎ prepared.

Adjective

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

1. Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.

   He was ill-prepared for the exam. I'm not surprised he failed.

   • 2006, William M Kelso, Jamestown - The Buried Truth:

     The colonists, many of them gentlemen ill-prepared to be settlers, achieved failure at almost everything they tried.

References

• “ill-prepared”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.