adjective
- properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
- (of food) processed by the manufacturer or seller, by cooking, cleaning, or the like, so as to be ready to serve or use with little or no further preparation.
adjective
- having made inadequate preparations
- not made ready or prepared
- done without preparation; extemporaneous
adj.1540s, from un- (1) “not” + past participle of prepare (v.).