'taken unawares' definitions:
Synonyms of 'taken unawares'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ad-lib,
- astonished,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- makeshift,
- precipitate,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- struck with surprise,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unstudied