Definition of underprepared
:inadequately prepared
What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Explore M-W
Recent Examples of underprepared from the Web
-
Early-childhood educators are hard to come by and consistently underprepared, so a Denver child-care provider is trying to change things with a new in-house training model.
-
That number would not include those schools that game the system without committing bonafide infractions, pushing underprepared players through the system in a cynical, exploitative charade.
-
Because our colleges annually produce the overwhelming majority of racially underprepared industry leaders in the U.S., most of whom are white, higher education helps sustain racial inequity and injustice in our nation.
-
Faced with dismal success rates, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College was desperate for new ideas to help some of the city’s most underprepared students gain the math skills needed to earn a degree or transfer to a four-year university.
-
The recent political earthquakes have found us intellectually and emotionally underprepared, even helpless.
-
Mr. Mangano was apparently underprepared for his court date — or, perhaps, utterly defiant.
-
However, a line needs to be drawn somewhere about what can be permissible and what represents such a high danger than allowing underprepared (and potentially oblivious) tourists into an area.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'underprepared.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of underprepared
1964
Learn More about underprepared
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up underprepared? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
Writing? Check your grammar now!