Without preparation; not prepared for.

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.    ... show more

Roget 674: unprepared etc. (prepare); &c.; 673; without preparation etc. 673; incomplete etc. 53; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha^†, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn^†, unformed, unfashioned^†, unwrought, unlabored^†, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.    unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured^†, unlicked^†, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated, untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised; deckle-edged^†; precocious, premature; undigested, indigested^†; unmellowed^†, unseasoned, unleavened.    unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem [Lat.].    fallow; unsown, untilled; natural, in a state of nature; undressed; in dishabille, en deshabille [Fr.].    unqualified, disqualified; unfitted; ill-digested; unbegun, unready, unarranged^†, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed; out of gear, out of order; dismantled etc. v.. shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded; happy-go-lucky; caught napping etc. (inexpectant) 508^†; unpremeditated etc. 612.    ... show more

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