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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: without careful prior deliberation or counsel; "ill- advised efforts"; "it would be ill-advised to accept the offer"; "took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations" [syn: ill-advised, unadvised] [ant: advised, well-advised]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1592 resulting from or showing lack of wise and sufficient counsel or deliberation <an ill-advised decision> • ill-advisedly adverb

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something that someone does as ill-advised, you mean that it is not sensible or wise. They would be ill-advised to do this... ADJ: oft ADJ to-inf

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Injudicious, unwise, imprudent, foolish, ill-judged.

Moby Thesaurus

a bit previous, advanced, automatic, bad, botched, brash, bungled, butchered, casual, far ahead, forward, fumbled, futile, gut, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, hotheaded, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-managed, ill-seasoned, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, imprudent, impulsive, inadvertent, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incautious, incongruous, inconsiderate, inconvenient, indeliberate, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, insensate, intempestive, intrusive, involuntary, irrational, irrelevant, late, madcap, mal a propos, malapropos, mindless, misadvised, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, mistimed, muffed, murdered, myopic, negligent, not firm, off base, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of time, overhasty, oversoon, precipitate, precocious, premature, previous, rash, reasonless, reckless, reflex, reflexive, rushed, senseless, shortsighted, snap, spoiled, spontaneous, thoughtless, too early, too late, too soon, unadvised, unbefitting, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, uncrystallized, undeliberate, undeliberated, undesigned, undesirable, undiscerning, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforeseeing, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unintended, unintentional, unjelled, unlucky, unmatured, unmeditated, unmeet, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprofitable, unpropitious, unready, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unripe, unseasonable, unseeing, unseemly, unsensible, unsound, unstudied, unsuitable, unthinking, unthoughtful, untimely, untoward, unwilled, unwise, witless, wrong