ill-advised

  • 11ill-advised — adjective not sensible or not wise and likely to cause problems in the future: an ill advised response to the crisis | you would be ill advised to do sth (=used to advise someone not to do something stupid): You would be ill advised to lend him… …

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  • 12ill-advised — adjective without careful prior deliberation or counsel ill advised efforts it would be ill advised to accept the offer took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations • Syn: ↑unadvised • Ant: ↑well advised …

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  • 13ill-advised — UK [ˌɪl ədˈvaɪzd] / US adjective likely to have a bad effect a plan that is ill advised and destructive ill advised comments …

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  • 14ill-advised — adjective an ill advised business venture Syn: unwise, injudicious, misguided, imprudent, ill considered, ill judged, impolitic; foolhardy, foolish, hare brained, rash, reckless, irresponsible; informal crazy, idiotic, crackpot, madcap Ant …

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  • 15ill-advised — adjective Date: circa 1592 resulting from or showing lack of wise and sufficient counsel or deliberation < an ill advised decision > • ill advisedly adverb …

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  • 16ill-advised — Synonyms and related words: a bit previous, advanced, automatic, bad, botched, brash, bungled, butchered, casual, far ahead, forward, fumbled, futile, gut, half baked, half cocked, hasty, hotheaded, ill considered, ill contrived, ill devised, ill …

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  • 17ill-advised — adj 1. imprudent, incautious, indiscreeti inappropriate, unseemly, unsuitable, irresponsible, foolish; injudicious, ill judged, inexpedient, unwise, ill considered, ill suited, impolitic, unadvised, unadvisable; misguided, miscounseled, wrong&#8230; …

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  • 18ill-advised — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unwise, imprudent. See folly. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foolish, unwise, imprudent, ill considered; see rash , stupid1 , wrong 3 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. unwise, imprudent, misguided,&#8230; …

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  • 19ill-advised — adjective not wise or prudent. Derivatives ill advisedly adverb …

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  • 20ill-advised — a. Injudicious, unwise, imprudent, foolish, ill judged …

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