ill-prepared

adj

ill-prepared

adj

Etymology From 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.
The colonists, many of them gentlemen ill-prepared to be settlers, achieved failure at almost everything they tried.2006, William M Kelso, Jamestown - The Buried Truth:

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