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Meanings of unready in English
Not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond.
Usage of unready in English
1
Reluctantly the boy complied, his own revolver trembling in his unready hand.
2
The fleet has been neglected, and has been overwhelmed, unready and unprepared.
3
And then she began to sob aloud, being so young and unready.
4
I remember thinking how young she looked, and how unready for suffering.
5
I am not going to be trampled upon, unready as I am.
6
So he takes Quade unready and plugs him, while Quade ain't looking.
7
I felt very doltish and unready as I followed him to the drawing-room.
8
There are a lot of people unready for women in power.
9
Only herself, the blanket bed, and the little woman were unready.
10
Somebody beside her laughed the short unready laugh of one slow at mirth.
11
Eliza, completely unready, fell off and landed harmlessly in soft sand.
12
So shocked you would have been, so unready to conceive of such things.
13
Suddenly Tom made a powerful lunge that seemed to find the captain unready.
14
Her voice grew lower, her words more unready and failed altogether.
15
But something in her eyes, cold, unready, yet aware of him, repelled him.
16
She grew timid, bewildered, unready both of purpose and of speech.
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