Usually means: Not prepared for immediate action.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word unready:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. unready: Merriam-Webster
  2. unready: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unready: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unready: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unready: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unready, unready: Wordnik
  7. unready: Wiktionary
  8. unready: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. unready: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. unready: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. unready: Dictionary.com
  12. unready: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Unready: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. unready: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. unready: Rhymezone
  16. Unready: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. unready: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Unready: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. Unready: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. unready: FreeDictionary.org
  21. unready: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. unready: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unready: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unready)

▸ adjective:  Not ready.

Similar:
unprepared, unripe, off-guard, napping, flat-footed, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off your guard, nonprepared, more...

Opposite:
ready, prepared, willing

Types:
unprepared, unpreparedness, unpreparedness plan, unpreparedness kit, more...

Phrases:
ethelred the unready, unready parents, more...


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Similar:
unprepared, unripe, off-guard, napping, flat-footed, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off your guard, nonprepared, more...

Opposite:
ready, prepared, willing

Types:
unprepared, unpreparedness, unpreparedness plan, unpreparedness kit, more...

Phrases:
ethelred the unready, unready parents, more...



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