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单词 ill-advised
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Definition of ill-advised in English:

ill-advised

adjective ˌɪlədˈvʌɪzdˈˌɪl ədˈvaɪzd
  • Not sensible, wise, or prudent.

    you would be ill-advised to go on your own
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is delicate but to be encouraged (though Americans would be ill-advised to go anywhere near such a program with aid dollars).
    • Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour.
    • However, when purchasing cloves - and they're readily available in most supermarkets and food shops - you will be ill-advised to buy the ground variety.
    • Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour.
    • How do you prove that a person has acted in a particular way because of another's race, gender or whatever, unless the perpetrator has been ill-advised enough to say so?
    • Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate.
    Synonyms
    unwise, injudicious, misguided, imprudent, impolitic, incautious, ill-considered, ill-judged, ill-conceived, ill-thought-out, badly planned, inexpedient
    foolhardy, hare-brained, rash, hasty, overhasty, short-sighted, thoughtless, unthinking, careless, reckless
    foolish, silly, asinine, wrong-headed
    informal crazy, crackpot, crackbrained, cock-eyed
    British informal daft

Derivatives

  • ill-advisedly

  • adverbˌɪlədˈvʌɪzɪdli
    • If people think that civil servants or ministers put their minds to this ill-advisedly then they couldn't be more wrong.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Donner Pass was named after the emigrants from the Midwest who ill-advisedly brought their wagon train up through these mountains in 1844 and had to resort to cannibalism to survive the winter.
      • The Coast Guard, by the way, unfortunately - and in my opinion, ill-advisedly - sank this wonderful contraption that was a vehicle for freedom for these people.
      • He decided to curb his alcohol consumption and ill-advisedly he turned to the heavy use of cannabis.
      • It was ill-advisedly set up by Pats (who, incidentally, has never properly apologised for the horror she inflicted on me).
 
 

Definition of ill-advised in US English:

ill-advised

adjectiveˈˌil ədˈvīzdˈˌɪl ədˈvaɪzd
  • Unwise or imprudent.

    you would be ill-advised to go on your own
    Example sentencesExamples
    • How do you prove that a person has acted in a particular way because of another's race, gender or whatever, unless the perpetrator has been ill-advised enough to say so?
    • This is delicate but to be encouraged (though Americans would be ill-advised to go anywhere near such a program with aid dollars).
    • Unless and until she stops talking like an eighteenth century Tory oligarch in a rotten borough, the committee would be ill-advised to pick her as a candidate.
    • Despite her professed intent, Barbara is more successful in documenting her own growing obsession with Sheba than Sheba's ill-advised amour.
    • Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour.
    • However, when purchasing cloves - and they're readily available in most supermarkets and food shops - you will be ill-advised to buy the ground variety.
    Synonyms
    unwise, injudicious, misguided, imprudent, impolitic, incautious, ill-considered, ill-judged, ill-conceived, ill-thought-out, badly planned, inexpedient
 
 
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