unready

adjective

un·ready ˌən-ˈre-dē

unreadier; unreadiest

: 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

unreadiness noun

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But readiness is usually an advantage, especially when your opponent is adamantly unready. —

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024 About a quarter are unready to express an opinion of either. —

Gary Langer, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2024 Subsequent polls showed a reality Biden was unready to accept: Vice President Kamala Harris was outperforming him. —

Philip Wegmann, Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2024 Struck by the social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, unready for the academic rigor and still finding himself, Watson often was uncomfortable in and out of the classroom even as his golf continued to flourish and develop. —

Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for unready