unequipped
/ʌnɪˈkwɪpt
/adjective [predicative]
Not equipped with the necessary items or skills: kids unequipped to deal with the situation...
- The knock-on effect is that the streets are sewers of foul-smelling rubbish and discarded flyers, with which the council seems woefully unequipped and disinclined to deal.
- At the same time, however, the city has a solid, and seemingly intractable core of families caught in the poverty trap, living on benefits, untrained and unequipped for the job market.
- And this can leave us unequipped to deal with just those problems for which new facts and analysis are most needed.
