unready

un·ready | \ ˌən-ˈre-dē

unreadier; unreadiest

Definition of unready

: not prepared or ready unready to go to college My catcher … seemed unready; through the openings in his mask I could just discern a look that mingled confusion and distress.— Ejner Jensen I'm like a jailbird after a long stretch: unready for life, resentful of the separation, nostalgic for the chums I'd been locked up with …— John le Carré

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Recent Examples on the Web And government was clearly unready, scrambling to hire Cobol programmers to update 50-year-old unemployment-claims systems. — Andy Kessler, WSJ, "How Tech Got Ready for 2020," 20 Dec. 2020 Just as excellence can, in certain moods, strike us as a reproach, Shirley Hazzard has a way of unnerving the unready. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: Moral Hazzard," 4 Dec. 2020 Simons proved to be quite unready, actually, while shooting 39.9% from the field and 33.2% from three-point range. — oregonlive, "Anfernee Simons could be the team’s future or a trade chip: Trail Blazers season review, look ahead," 19 Sep. 2020 Again, the study found that people of color and low-income individuals accounted for a disproportionate share of people who were considered unready. — Juliet Isselbacher, STAT, "Telemedicine is booming — but many people still face huge barriers to virtual care," 5 Aug. 2020 This source blames Navarro for the confusion, which meant the Capitol Hill delegation came to the meeting ready to fight and unready to compromise. — Nihal Krishan, Washington Examiner, "Trump backed off shipping reform under political pressure, former advisers claim," 12 July 2020 Why were most countries—and especially the U.S.—so unready? — David Quammen, The New Yorker, "Why Weren’t We Ready for the Coronavirus?," 4 May 2020 But her primary performance failed to generate much enthusiasm among Democrats, and her indecisiveness made her seem unready to step up in a crisis. — John Mccormack, National Review, "Why Amy Klobuchar Is the Front-runner in the Democratic Veepstakes," 17 Apr. 2020 Even those who voted against the Democratic amendments said Alaska is unready to vote by mail. — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, "Emergency law may require Alaskans to vote by mail in August election," 25 Mar. 2020

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