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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

badly thought out

not thought through

taking no notice of

paying no heed to

not paying attention

overventuresome

disadvantageous

self-destructive

not recommended

spur of the moment

leaving self wide open

off the deep end

bull-in-a-china-shop

asleep at the switch

careless of one's duty

going off deep end

jumping the gun

disregardful of

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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

feather-brained

with a mind like a sieve

disorganized^US

in a world of your own

disorganised^UK

a million miles away

with your head in the clouds

deep in thought

immersed in thought

looking out window

driven to distraction

unaware of events

head in the clouds

with a memory like a sieve

not thinking clearly

inclined to forget

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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

spur of the moment

rough and ready

shot from the hip

quick-and-dirty

out of the blue

without preparation

catch-as-catch-can

ill-thought-out

off top of head

not thought through

badly thought out

jumping the gun

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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

out of the loop

in ignorance of

without knowledge of

disregardful of

taking no notice of

paying no heed to

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Adverb

Suddenly, without being anticipated

Adverb

By accident, without knowing

unintentionally

without noticing

in all innocence

serendipitously

unpremeditatedly

as luck would have it

out of the clear blue sky

for some reason

by happenstance

by a mere chance

by good fortune

by a twist of fate

by a piece of luck

by a happy chance

inexperiencedly

unknowledgeably

inappropriately

unanticipatedly

unintelligently

unintellectually

simple-mindedly

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