Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

impreparation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-prepa-ra-tion
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack of preparation.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Which impreparation and unreadiness when then they find in us, they turn it to the soothing up of themselves in that cursed fancy, whereby they would fain believe that the hearty devotion of such as indeed fear God is nothing else but a kind of harmless error […]"

Etymology

From im- + preparation.

Usage

Questions

What does impreparation mean?: Lack of preparation.
Where does impreparation come from?: From im- + preparation.

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