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ill-equipped

ill-equipped adjective: not well equipped; lacking important resources and supplies.

Adjective

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

  1. Not well equipped; lacking important resources and supplies.
    • 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...2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist
  2. Mentally unprepared for a situation or task.

ill-equipped meaning in Kannada

ill-equipped in Kannada

ಸಜ್ಜುಗೊಂಡಿಲ್ಲದ

Antonyms of ill-equipped

Forms of ill-equipped

comparativemore ill-equipped
superlativemost ill-equipped

Origin of ill-equipped

From ill (adverb) + equipped.

Questions about ill-equipped

What does ill-equipped mean?
Ill-equipped means not well equipped; lacking important resources and supplies.
What is ill-equipped in Kannada?
Ill-equipped in Kannada is ಸಜ್ಜುಗೊಂಡಿಲ್ಲದ. See Ill-equipped meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is ill-equipped?
Ill-equipped is an adjective.

Words near ill-equipped in the dictionary

  1. ill-doers
  2. ill-doing
  3. ill-doings
  4. ill-ease
  5. ill-effect
  6. ill-equipped
  7. ill-famed
  8. ill-fated
  9. ill-fatedly
  10. ill-fatedness
  11. ill-favored

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-equipped (page history and authors); ill-equipped (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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