ill-equipped

Synonyms for ill-equipped

adj not appropriate or suited

adjective. not prepared, incompetent

He was ruddy and robust and ill-equipped with academic dignity.

Both armies were extremely ill-led, ill-disciplined, and ill-equipped.

I really am a most troublesome companion to you both, but I hope I am not often so ill-equipped.

She had but few trained soldiers, and these were ill-equipped.

A small force, and one ill-equipped to go up against the Baldies.

Most of his troops were ill-equipped, unreliable, and insubordinate.

An insect excellently equipped for gathering and felting cotton is ill-equipped for cutting leaves, kneading mud or mixing resin.

Among them we have found both well-equipped and ill-equipped, both well-taught and ill-taught schools.

Modern ingenuity has not succeeded in accomplishing very much more than was done by the ill-equipped mariners of centuries ago.

But missing, failing by ever so little, it left the three ill-equipped to continue the struggle on lower grounds.