unreadiness
1
5.7
- noun
- /ʌnˈrɛdɪnəs/
:
falta de preparación
- His unreadiness to accept responsibility was disappointing to his colleagues who had worked hard on the project.
Examples
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Students who lack the academic skills for success in college have challenged open-admission institutions for decades, but strategies for identifying both the causes of academic unreadiness and the solutions have become as diverse as the student body itself.
Academic text (1996) -
Also, he spoke of some strangeness of his left hand and arm; he missed the spot on which he wished to lay that hand unless he carefully looked at it. He felt an unreadiness to lift his hands towards his head, especially his left hand, when, for instance, he was brushing his hair.
Academic text (2001) -
At one side was Singer's terrifying maxim of unreadiness.
Fiction book (1996) -
Reformers nevertheless insist that it's generally not academic unreadiness that causes college students to stop short of completing their program.
Academic text (1997) -
Her attachment marks the Siamese as worthy of survival, despite their unreadiness to survive.
Academic text (2012) -
Any appearance of incompetency or unreadiness will not bode well with the community and could endanger students and staff.
Academic text (2013) -
Eric Simonson, who co-owns International Mountain Guides, calls Shah the poster child for high-altitude unreadiness.
Blog text (26) -
In this case, the unreadiness of a number of branches of the economy to withstand the external rapid financial "injection" will cause an imbalance in the financial and economic systems of the cluster as a whole and will lead to a recession when the financial flow begins to leave the financial and economic systems of the cluster.
Academic text (2018) -
Organizational characteristics that were identified included the need to restructure the intake process, the need for additional staff training, inadequate financial resources, the emotional unreadiness of clients to disclose, and the belief that clients would not share the truth about abuse history out of fear of being turned away for services.
Academic text (2008) -
The team's unreadiness for the championship game was evident when they struggled to coordinate their plays.
Synonyms
34
3.9
A feeling of not wanting to do something
1
5.1
A situation when someone is not ready and does not have what is needed
Antonyms
How Ready
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unreadiness breaks into three parts: the first part un- means 'not', the middle ready means 'prepared', and the ending -ness turns an adjective into a 'state'. So unreadiness literally means the 'state of not being prepared', which is why we use it when someone is not ready for something.