ILL-EQUIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-equipped mean? 

• ILL-EQUIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective ILL-EQUIPPED has 1 sense:

1. poorly supplied with physical equipment

  Familiarity information: ILL-EQUIPPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL-EQUIPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Poorly supplied with physical equipment

Context example:

the school was ill-equipped

Similar:

unequipped (without necessary physical or intellectual equipment)

 Context examples 

I really am a most troublesome companion to you both, but I hope I am not often so ill-equipped.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was as if he had studied at the university himself, instead of being ill-equipped from browsing at haphazard through the books in the library.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)