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" It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems."
John Hawkes

Meaning of "ill-equipped" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF ILL-EQUIPPED

ˌɪlɪˈkwɪpt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILL-EQUIPPED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ill-Equipped is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ILL-EQUIPPED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ill-equipped in the English dictionary

The definition of ill-equipped in the dictionary is without the skills, qualities or equipment necessary.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ILL-EQUIPPED

bullwhipped · dipped · Egypt · equipped · escaped · flipped · JavaScript · landscaped · manuscript · overequipped · quipped · re-equipped · ripped · script · shipped · slipped · striped · transcript · unequipped · unwhipped

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILL-EQUIPPED

ill-affected · ill-assorted · ill-behaved · ill-bred · ill-breeding · ill-concealed · ill-conceived · ill-considered · ill-defined · ill-disposed · ill-fated · ill-favored · ill-favoredly · ill-favoured · ill-favouredly · ill-feeling · ill-fitting · ill-formed · ill-founded · ill-gotten

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILL-EQUIPPED

chipped · dripped · gripped · microchipped · nipped · outstripped · pipped · sipped · skipped · snipped · stopped · stripped · tight-lipped · tipped · transhipped · tripped · unzipped · well-equipped · whipped · worshipped · zipped

Synonyms and antonyms of ill-equipped in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ill-equipped» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ILL-EQUIPPED

Find out the translation of ill-equipped to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ill-equipped from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ill-equipped» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

装备不良
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

mal equipados
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ill-equipped
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बीमार सुसज्जित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سوء التجهيز
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

плохо оборудованы
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

mal equipados
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অসুস্থ সজ্জিত
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

mal équipé
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tidak lengkap
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

schlecht ausgerüstet
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

悪い装備
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

를 갖추지
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Gerah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không được trang bị
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

போதிய வசதிகளைக்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अयोग्य सुसज्ज
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

kötü donanımlı
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

mal equipaggiate
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

źle wyposażone
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

погано обладнані
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

slab echipate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άρρωστος - εξοπλισμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swak toegerus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dåligt utrustade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dårlig utstyrt
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ill-equipped

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QUOTES WITH «ILL-EQUIPPED»

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John Hawkes
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILL-EQUIPPED»

Discover the use of ill-equipped in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ill-equipped and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ill-equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness
Mentally ill offenders face mistreatment and neglect in many U.S. prisons.
Sasha Abramsky, Jamie Fellner, 2003
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Ill-Equipped for a Life of Sex: A Memoir
The wife of comic and writer John Lehr describes a series of painful relationships that marked her young adulthood, her disillusionment in the face of a lackluster married sex life, and the truths that she has discovered in her quest for ...
Jennifer Lehr, 2005
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Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions, Including ...
... language is ill suited to describe the experience-type in question. So let us begin by examining Newcomb's claim that "our language is ill equipped to cope with the phenomena of expressive meaning in music." What grounds are there for it?
Peter Kivy, 1989
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Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam
writers have depicted Johnson as "the quintessential provincial," a man ill equipped by nature or temperament to deal with foreign policy, and who wanted, as Professor Alonzo Hamby concluded, to be remembered as a "conciliator" but who ...
Thomas Alan Schwartz, 2003
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The Man Who Cured the Performance Review: A practical and ...
The. prescription. For. bureaucracy: For. ill-equipped. people: align. equip. True. North. Invite. Feeoloack. P0674. Cycles. ReceiveeRetIect-Responol. Principles. of. ill/'an. RErlL. anal. RITE. scripts. the. cure. for. bureaucracy. —. align. The word  ...
Graham Winter, 2011
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We're All in Prison
Instead, we have ill-equipped parents giving birth to and raising children that are not properly loved or trained to love. As they get older, some of them reach out to others hoping for love. They end up having sex and bringing children into the ...
Patricia A. Jones, 2006
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A Revolution in Military Adaptation: The US Army in the Iraq War
... argues that “a force that is structured to fight a high-intensity conflict against another nation-state's military is ill-equipped to adapt to the challenge of COIN. It is not just physically ill equipped but, much more importantly, mentally ill equipped.
Chad C. Serena, 2011
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Dictionary of the English Language Exhibiting Orthography, ...
... iH-consiaíred, ill-defined', ill-deserved' (also unmerited), ill-devlscd' (unwisely planned; injudicious), ill-direct'- ed, itl-dispuseoY (unfav. d. ; ripe for crime or mischief), ill-equipped, -kwlpt', ill' -faced, ill'-fated (unfortunate), itl-fofvoured (ill'— S.
Arnold James Cooley, 1861
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Beyond Hope: An Illustrated History of the Fraser and ...
With new roads and new settlers, the gold rush helped build Canada's West. This pictorial history tells the stories of the Fraser and Cariboo gold rush and of the lives involved in that tumultuous but decisive event in Canadian history.
Beverley Boissery, Bronwyn Short, 2003
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Clinical Manual of Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill
... physicians outside of the field of psychosomatic medicine (who represent a small subspecialty within psychiatry) often feel ill equipped to prescribe to such patients out of concerns for safety, lack of efficacy, and drug–disease and drug– drug ...
Stephen J. Ferrando, James L. Levenson, James A. Owen, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILL-EQUIPPED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ill-equipped is used in the context of the following news items.
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MI5 was 'unprepared' for 7/7 bombings - former spy — RT UK - RT.com
He said that MI5 was understaffed and that it had generally been ill-equipped for a rise in Islamic terror following 9/11. Trends9/11 tragedy, ... «RT, Jul 15»
2
Take a bewildering trip to discovery with iconic play (From Swindon …
He has an extraordinary brain, and is exceptional at maths but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the ... «Swindon Advertiser, Jul 15»
3
#dnaEdit: Playing to the gallery | Latest News & Updates at Daily …
Without a strong base, the significant youth population in the coming years will be ill-equipped to meet the daunting and fast-paced global ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
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Reddit kills 'unfettered free speech' with half-hearted censorship
As Reddit has been in the news in recent weeks, it has become apparent that the current moderators feel ill-equipped to deal with the content ... «BetaNews, Jul 15»
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AUN President addresses UN High Commission for Refugees …
The international aid community, however, is generally ill-equipped to deal with refugees outside of camps or camp-like settings. AUN-API, she ... «Premium Times, Jul 15»
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Modernize law to protect elderly and disabled: Goar | Toronto Star
... resources available to people who are ill-equipped to manage a loved one's affairs and the support for citizens who want to stop elder abuse. «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
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The Five Biggest Emmy Oversights - Studio Daily
But the episode "Hardhome" culminated with an army of reanimated wights descended on a woefully ill-equipped fishing village in a ... «Studio Daily, Jul 15»
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O'Neill: A lesson in Winston Churchill's defeat - The Detroit News
Voters were concerned he was ill-equipped to address post-war needs. Not that Churchill had no grasp of post-war realism. He saw more ... «The Detroit News, Jul 15»
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How to Choose the Right POS Platform | Multichannel Merchant
But when it inevitably arrives, any retailer ill-equipped to deal with it will be forced to sit on the sidelines. That's why the benefits of selecting a ... «Multichannel Merchant, Jul 15»
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Americans Don't Have the Right to Bear Just Any Arms - Newsweek
Instead, in places like Idaho, state judges who are ill-equipped to make such a determination do it with no input from experts. According to the ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
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