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Unprepared or not paying attention

Careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution

Not paying attention to something

Done or performed without prior preparation or thought

Not being wary or having any suspicion

Suddenly, without being anticipated

By accident, without knowing

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Adjective

Unprepared or not paying attention

“His wife's sudden appearance at the hotel caught him completely off-guard.”

Adjective

Careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution

asleep at the wheel

playing with fire

asleep on the job

sticking one's neck out

leading with one's chin

spur-of-the-moment

hell-for-leather

over-adventurous

jumping to conclusions

over-venturesome

ill-thought-out

blithely unconcerned

good-for-nothing

badly thought out

not thought through

disadvantageous

overventuresome

self-destructive

spur of the moment

leaving self wide open

off the deep end

not recommended

asleep at the switch

bull-in-a-china-shop

careless of one's duty

disregardful of

going off deep end

paying no heed to

taking no notice of

not paying attention

jumping the gun

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Adjective

Not paying attention to something

lost in thought

in a brown study

lacking concentration

not concentrating

off in a world of one's own

in a world of your own

feather-brained

with a mind like a sieve

disorganized^US

immersed in thought

deep in thought

disorganised^UK

with your head in the clouds

a million miles away

unaware of events

head in the clouds

with a memory like a sieve

driven to distraction

not thinking clearly

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Adjective

Done or performed without prior preparation or thought

improvisational

spur-of-the-moment

not thought out

off the top of your head

extemporized^US

extemporised^UK

thrown together

cobbled together

improvisatorial

autoschediastic

rough and ready

spur of the moment

shot from the hip

without restraint

without preparation

according to pleasure

as one thinks best

quick and dirty

out of the blue

catch-as-catch-can

ill-thought-out

off top of head

not thought through

badly thought out

jumping the gun

occurring by chance

occurring by accident

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Adjective

Not being wary or having any suspicion

not in the loop

unknowledgeable

taking no notice

inexperienced in

unconversant with

unfamiliar with

out of the loop of

not knowing the first thing about

uninitiated about

unacquainted with

unenlightened about

in the dark about

without knowledge

inexperienced of

uninformed about

not having the faintest about

unaccustomed to

in ignorance of

disregardful of

taking no notice of

paying no heed to

without knowledge of

unresponsive to

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Adverb

Suddenly, without being anticipated

Adverb

By accident, without knowing

unintentionally

without noticing

in all innocence

serendipitously

as luck would have it

out of the clear blue sky

for some reason

unpremeditatedly

by happenstance

by a mere chance

by good fortune

by a twist of fate

by a piece of luck

by a happy chance

unanticipatedly

extemporaneously

circumstantially

inappropriately

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