ill-equipped

English

Etymology

ill (adverb) + equipped

Adjective

ill-equipped (comparative more ill-equipped, superlative most ill-equipped)

  1. Not well equipped; lacking important resources and supplies.
    • 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
      King Vajiralongkorn has stacked his privy council with generals plucked straight from the junta's cabinet; the junta has looked to the palace to help adjudicate in a long-running and volatile dispute over who should fill a vacant post at the head of Thai Buddhism, which the military government had appeared ill-equipped to handle alone.
  2. Mentally unprepared for a situation or task.

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