unequipped

English

Verb

unequipped

  1. simple past and past participle of unequip

Adjective

unequipped (comparative more unequipped, superlative most unequipped)

  1. Without equipment.
  2. Not given the appropriate tools to deal with a situation.
    At six years of age, he was unequipped to deal with the death of his parents.
    • 1961 August, M. C. Casson, “Motive power transition in the Liverpool area”, in Trains Illustrated, page 476:
      The only overlap is that fitters of the electric side are responsible for repairing electrical faults in the diesel multiple-units, but even this has led to trouble, as diesel fitters called out to repair a multiple-unit, having diagnosed the fault as electrical, have been unequipped to deal with it.
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