unprovided
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not provided; not supplied or equipped; unprepared.
Example Sentences
- "The shepheards God so wel them guided, That of nought they were unprovided, Butter enough, honye, milke, and whay, And their flockes fleeces, them to araye."
- "Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day. First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate, An eye-sore to our solemn festival!"
- "Mean while, if you are unprovided of a Lodging, I dare undertake, you shall be welcome to this Gentlewoman."
- "Miss Tilney, understanding in part her friend’s curiosity to see the house, soon revived the subject; and her father being, contrary to Catherine’s expectations, unprovided with any pretence for further delay […] was at last ready to escort them."
- "Perhaps it is an oversight on Mr Macgregor’s part that he has left these young infants quite unprovided for, and that some of their mothers are in danger of starvation […]"
- "Originally unprovided with cabs, the first to acquire them did so during the Webb period in the 1890's, [...]."
Etymology
From un- + provided.