Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - unprepared

1. If you are unprepared for something, you are not ready for it, and you are therefore surprised or at a disadvantage when it happens. I was totally unprepared for the announcement on the next day... Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work... We were caught completely unprepared. ? prepared ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ for n 2. If you are unprepared to do something, you are not willing to do it. He was unprepared to co-operate, or indeed to communicate. ? prepared ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf