unprovided for

1. 1.

   without income or means

   “left his family unprovided for”

   Similarpoor
2. 2.

   not prepared or ready for

   Similarunexpected

Questions about unprovided for

What does unprovided for mean?

unprovided for means "without income or means". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is unprovided for a common word?

unprovided for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.