ill-prepared
ill-prepared
Definition
ill-prepared (-prē pard′)
adjective
not properly prepared; poorly prepared
ill-prepared
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- leave: Barnardo's believes a childhood dominated by institutional care can leave young disabled people ill-prepared for an independent life in the community.
Preposition: for
- life: Barnardo's believes a childhood dominated by institutional care can leave young disabled people ill-prepared for an independent life in the community.
- challenge: Many medical students go on electives ill-prepared for the challenges that will face them in different societies and different health systems.
- arrival: Many communities are ill-prepared for the arrival of asylum seekers and fearful of the impact they may have.
Infinitive complement
- deal: Politics will remain in a state of stasis as long as society feels so ill-prepared to deal with change.
- meet: Once there the services were often ill-prepared to meet their specific needs with limited training and infrequent contact with learning disability professionals.
Modifying Another Word
- often: On top of these regular humbling experiences, clubs are often ill-prepared to cater for our large number of traveling fans.
- so: It all seemed so ill-prepared, a kids ' pleasure trip up the river at last minute, how lame.
- woefully: On Saturday we had silly games, then Mike went on a pub crawl and Steve went on a woefully ill-prepared walk.
Used with adjective complement
Browse dictionary entries near ill-prepared
- ill-omened
- ill-natured
- ill nature
- ill-mannered
- ill-looking
- ill-humored
- ill humor
- ill-gotten
- ill-founded
- ill-favored
- ill-proportioned
- ill-smelling
- ill-sorted
- ill-sounding
- ill-spent
- ill-starred
- ill-suited
- ill temper
- ill-tempered
- ill-timed
