Definition of ill-prepared in English:

adjective

• Not ready or prepared for something.

  ‘his light clothing left him ill-prepared for the rain’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Some companies are said to be ill-prepared and concerned that they will not be able to find the money.’
  • ‘It has also revealed a nation ill-prepared to cope.’
  • ‘Your children will absorb your fear, rather than what you are trying to say, and will be ill-prepared to cope with a crisis.’
  • ‘And if we had been reading them correctly, for what they told us, not what we wanted to hear, we would not have been so ill-prepared for the actual electoral results.’
  • ‘A report from the Chartered Management Institute reveals businesses in London are ill-prepared to cope with disaster and disruption.’