unprepared

unprepared
adj
1. unready, Inf. caught short, caught napping, taken off guard, surprised, caught by surprise, taken aback, dumfounded, abashed; disorganized, at sixes and sevens, not set up, confused, jumbled, muddled.
2. untrained, unskilled, ignorant, green, raw, new to, innocent as a baby; inexperienced, unseasoned, unpracticed, unqualified.
3. unfinished, uncompleted, incomplete, just started, inchoate; half-baked, undeveloped, Sl. half-assed, half-cocked, ill-prepared, ill-considered, not thought out, unplanned.
4. extemporaneous, ad-lib, off-the-cuff, informal, casual, random.

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