Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ill-prepared
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ill-prepared (=not ready to deal with a difficult situation)
▪ The country was ill-prepared to fight another war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But inadequate and ill-prepared though she felt, she knew she could not turn back now.
▪ But it was too late - the meeting was ill-prepared to discuss the item.
▪ By historical standards, companies and consumers look badly over-borrowed and ill-prepared for a downturn.
▪ Concentrating on the trapped defenders, the Chaos army was ill-prepared for this fresh assault from Magnus's army.
▪ I arrived perplexed, cold and totally ill-prepared as a young naval officer at Wilhelmshaven that winter.
▪ They went to ill-prepared, unfinished blocks, often without furniture or bedding.
Wiktionary
ill-prepared
a. Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.
Usage examples of "ill-prepared".
When Duga saw the third company of two hundred come past early the next morning, he commented that he and his men had been led to believe they were invading a country of weak, ill-prepared cities.
But a few months ago, a battle with branchers had taken all the elder Se’ha males, catapulting that tiresome whelp Se’hraqua to a status he was ill-prepared for.
Software applications were chauvinistically ill-prepared (and still are) to deal with anything but English.