ill-conceived
An ill-conceived idea is one that hasn't been carefully considered. Your ill-conceived plan to ride your skateboard from New York to California is bound to turn out badly.
When you don't spend enough time planning or thinking things through, the result is likely to be an ill-conceived scheme of some kind. Ill-conceived laws tend to have unfortunate effects that lawmakers didn't expect, and ill-conceived movie scripts result in films whose plots make no logical sense. Something that's conceived is thought of, planned, or imagined, and when you add the prefix ill, you get something that's planned badly.
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poorly conceived or thought out“an ill-conceived plan to take over the company”synonyms: misbegotten, misguidedfoolishdevoid of good sense or judgment
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Vocabulary lists containing ill-conceived
Layla Amin thinks of herself as a typical American teenager. But when Muslim-Americans like Layla and her family are forcibly relocated to internment camps, the seventeen-year-old decides to fight for her freedom.
During the Great Depression, Abilene Tucker tries to solve a mystery in her father's hometown of Manifest, Kansas, while also learning about Manifest's fascinating past.
Using both text and graphics, John Hendrix details the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a spy who attempted to bring down the Nazi regime.