ill-equipped to do something• The victory was not difficult; the rebels were ill-equipped tocope with Westernweapons and forces.• Staff were unsupervised, untrained and ill-equipped to deal with fire.• They are similarly ill-equipped to deal with lions.• Blackkids go to school ill-equipped to do well and, of course, the majority do not do well academically.• Libraries might be ill-equipped to handle the deposit of records in electronic form, but its deposit should be encouraged.• She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow.• Consequently most white families are ill-equipped to provide the environment to prepare the black child for the tremendoustask ahead.