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UK
/ʌnɹˈɛdi/
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ADJECTIVE
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not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond
she cursed her unready tongue
How To Use unready In A Sentence
- Despite his ten billion years of preparation, he found himself to be unready.
- It means that children develop sexually much earlier, " Stanhope says. "They are physically ready for sexual reproduction but mentally completely unready.
- If you wait until you're totally ‘ready’ for marriage… well, I mean, lots of us are definitely unready for marriage, but is anybody totally ready?
- Built in Glasgow in 1910, this vessel tramped her way around the globe for the next three decades, until she was requisitioned by an Admiralty hurriedly preparing for a war it was desperately unready to fight.
- With time running down, the commission said management must develop alternative plans for stabling horses, including opening talks with Delaware Park, if Laurel is unready for training.
- After the death of Ethelred the Unready in 1016, the throne of England passed to Canute.
- He was known as Ethelred the Unready - not because of a lack of military preparation but because he was uncounselled or "unread". BBC News - Home
- It means that children develop sexually much earlier, " Stanhope says. "They are physically ready for sexual reproduction but mentally completely unready.
- The monarch, better known as Aethelred the Unready due to his difficult reign, was known for using bands of Scandinavian mercenaries to carry out his bidding. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- His attempts to buy off Viking invaders gave him the name, Ethelred the Unready.