Not prepared or vigilant.
synonyms: napping, off-guard, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off your guard.
Roget 458:
inattentive;
unobservant,
unmindful,
heedless,
unthinking,
unheeding,
undiscerning†;
inadvertent;
mindless,
regardless,
respectless†,
listless
etc.
(indifferent)
866;
blind,
deaf;
bird-witted;
hand over head;
cursory,
percursory†;
giddy-brained,
scatter-brained,
hare-brained;
unreflective,
unreflecting†,
ecervele [Fr.];
offhand;
dizzy,
muzzy†,
brainsick†;
giddy,
giddy as a goose;
wild,
harum-scarum,
rantipole†,
highflying;
heedless,
careless
etc.
(neglectful)
460.
inconsiderate,
thoughtless.
absent,
abstracted,
distrait;
absentminded,
lost;
lost in thought,
wrapped in thought;
rapt,
in the clouds,
bemused;
dreaming on other things,
musing on other things;
preoccupied,
engrossed
etc.
(attentive)
457;
daydreaming,
in a reverie
etc.
n.;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†;
napping;
dreamy;
caught napping.
disconcerted,
distracted,
put out
etc.
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Roget 460:
neglecting
etc.
v.;
unmindful,
negligent,
neglectful;
heedless,
careless,
thoughtless;
perfunctory,
remiss;
feebleness
etc.
575.
inconsiderate;
uncircumspect†,
incircumspect†;
off one's guard;
unwary,
unwatchful†,
unguarded;
offhand.
supine
etc.
(inactive)
683;
inattentive
etc.
458;
insouciant
etc.
(indifferent)
823;
imprudent,
reckless
etc.
863;
slovenly
etc.
(disorderly)
59,
(dirty)
653;
inexact
etc.
(erroneous)
495;
improvident
etc.
674.
neglected
etc.
v.;
unheeded,
uncared-for,
unperceived,
unseen,
unobserved,
unnoticed,
unnoted†,
unmarked,
unattended to,
unthought of,
unregarded†,
unremarked,
unmissed†;
shunted,
shelved.
unexamined,
unstudied,
unsearched†,
unscanned†,
unweighed†,
unsifted,
unexplored.
abandoned;
buried in a napkin,
hid under a bushel.
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Roget 508:
nonexpectant†;
surprised
etc.
v.;
unwarned,
unaware;
off one's guard;
inattentive
458.
unexpected,
unanticipated,
unpredicted†,
unlooked for,
unforeseen,
unhoped for;
dropped from the clouds;
beyond expectation,
contrary to expectation,
against expectation,
against all expectation;
out of one's reckoning;
unheard of
etc.
(exceptional)
83;
startling,
surprising;
sudden
etc.
(instantaneous)
113.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
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Roget 665:
in danger
etc.
n.;
endangered
etc.
v.;
fraught with danger;
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous†;
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664;
insecure.
untrustworthy;
built upon. sand,
on a sandy basis;
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless;
unshielded;
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed;
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay;
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question;
precarious,
critical,
ticklish;
slippery,
slippy;
hanging by a thread
etc.
v.;
with a halter round one's neck;
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano;
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire;
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering;
unstable,
unsteady;
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged;
helpless,
guideless†;
in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity;
trembling in the balance;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909;
ominous,
illomened;
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860;
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
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Roget 863:
rash,
incautious,
indiscreet;
imprudent,
improvident,
temerarious;
uncalculating†;
heedless;
careless
etc.
(neglectful)
460;
without ballast,
heels over head,
head over heels;
giddy
etc.
(inattentive)
458;
wanton,
reckless,
wild,
madcap;
desperate,
devil-may-care.
hot-blooded,
hotheaded,
hotbrained†;
headlong,
headstrong;
breakneck;
foolhardy;
harebrained;
precipitate,
impulsive.
overconfident,
overweening;
venturesome,
venturous;
adventurous,
Quixotic,
fire eating,
cavalier;
janty†,
jaunty,
free and easy.
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
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