Dictionary Definition
ready adj
1 completely prepared or in condition for
immediate action or use or progress; "get ready"; "she is ready to
resign"; "the bridge is ready to collapse"; "I am ready to work";
"ready for action"; "ready for use"; "the soup will be ready in a
minute"; "ready to learn to read" [ant: unready]
2 (of especially money) immediately available;
"he seems to have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash"
[syn: ready(a)]
3 mentally disposed; "he was ready to believe
her"
4 brought into readiness; "dinner is ready"
5 apprehending and responding with speed and
sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit" [syn: quick] n : poised for action;
"their guns were at the ready"
Verb
1 prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me
dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for
the guests, please" [syn: cook, fix, make, prepare]
2 make ready or suitable or equip in advance for
a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children
ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town
after I paid the hotel bill" [syn: fix, prepare, set up, gear up, set] [also: readiest, readier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English ræde, geræde < Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz ("arranged"). Origin unknown. Cognate with Dutch gereed, German gerade and bereit, Old Norse greiðr, and Gothic garaiþs.Pronunciation
- , /ˈɹɛdi/, /"r\Edi/
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- Homophones: reddy
- Rhymes: Rhymes: -ɛdi
- Homophones: reddy
- Hyphenation: read·y
Adjective
Synonyms
Translations
Prepared for immediate action or use
- Arabic: (jāhez)
- Chinese: 准備好的, 准备好的 (zhǔnbèi hǎo de)
- Czech: připravený
- Dutch: gereed
- Finnish: valmis
- French: prêt
- German: bereit
- Hungarian: kész
- Irish: réidh, ullamh
- Italian: preparato
- Japanese: 用意の出来た (よいのできた, yoi no dekita)
- Korean: 준비된 (junbidoen)
- Kurdish: ئاماده
- Polish: gotowy , gotowa , gotowe
- Portuguese: preparado
- Russian: готовый
- Spanish: preparado
- Swedish: beredd
Inclined, apt to happen
- Arabic: ,
- Kurdish:
- Albanian: gati
- Catalan: llest
- Croatian: gotov
- Czech: hotový
- Esperanto: preta
- Finnish: valmis (1), taipuvainen (2), altis (2)
- French: prêt , prête
- German: fertig, gar
- Greek: έτοιμος (étimos)
- Hungarian: kész
- Italian: pronto , pronta
- Latin: preparatus , preparata , preparatum
- Malay: sedia
- Norwegian: klar
- Portuguese: pronto
- Romanian: gata
- Serbian: spreman , spremna , spremno
- Spanish: listo , lista
- Telugu: సిద్ధం (siddhaM), తయారు (tayaaru)
- Turkish: hazır
- Welsh: parod
Verb
- To make prepared for action.
Translations
- Arabic: (jáhhaza)
- Kurdish:
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Ready may refer to:
- Ready Records, a record label
- Ready (Sports club), a sports club
- Ready (film), a 2008 Telugu film starring Ram and Genelia D'Souza
ready in Dutch: Ready
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, about, accessible, accordant, acquiescent, active, acute, adaptable, adept, adjusted, adroit, affirmative, agape, agile, agog, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, all ready, all
set, all-around, amenable, animated, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, anxious, apprentice, approving, apt, apt to, arch, ardent, armed, armed and ready, arrange, artful, artistic, assenting, astute, at hand, attentive, authoritative, available, avid, awaiting, awake, booted and spurred,
brace, bravura, break, break in, breathless, breed, briefed, bright, brilliant, bring up, bursting
to, cagey, calculated to,
canny, cash, certain, cheerful, clairvoyant, clean, clear for action, clear the
decks, clever, close at
hand, close to, coached,
cobble, cocked, commission, compliable, compliant, condition, confident, consentient, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, coordinated, cordial, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cultivate, cunning, cure, cute, daedal, darn, deceitful, decisive, deep, deep-laid, deft, deploy, designing, desirous, develop, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discipline, dispatchful, disposed, disposed to, divinatory, do up, docile, doctor, dress, drill, dynamic, eager, educable, endorsing, enthusiastic, equip, equipped, excellent, exercise, expectant, expecting, expeditious, expert, facile, fain, familiarized, fancy, farseeing, farsighted, favorable, favorably disposed,
favorably inclined, feline, fetch up, fit, fit out, fix, fix up, forearmed, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forestalling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarned, form, formable, fortify, forward, foster, foxy, friendly, full of life,
game, gaping, genial, get, get ready, given, given to, good, good and ready, goodish, graceful, gracious, groom, groomed, guileful, handy, happy, hopeful, house-train, housebreak, immediate, impatient, impressionable, improve, in anticipation, in
arms, in battle array, in condition, in danger of, in expectation,
in position, in readiness, in the mind, in the mood, in the saddle,
inclined, inclined to,
informed, ingenious, insidious, instant, instantaneous, instructable, intelligent, intuitive, inventive, keen, knowing, liable, liable to, lick into
shape, likely, likely to,
live, lively, loaded, loaded for bear, longsighted, looking for,
looking forward to, make,
make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, make up, malleable, marshal, masterful, masterly, mature, mend, minded, minded to, mobilize, mobilized, moldable, money, motivated, neat, nimble, no mean, not surprised,
nothing loath, nurse,
nurture, of all work, on
call, on deck, on hand, on tap, on the, on the alert, on the ball,
on the job, on the mark, optimistic, organize, overhaul, panting, patch, patch up, pawky, perceptive, permissive, plan, planned, plastic, pliable, pliant, poised, politic, practice, prearrange, prearranged, precognitive, precognizant, predisposed, predisposed to,
prep, prepare, prepared, prepared and ready,
prepped, prescient, pretreat, primed, process, professional, proficient, prompt, prone, prone to, provide, provided, provident, providential, prudent, psyched up, punctual, put in commission,
put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put in tune, put to
school, qualified, qui
vive, quick, quite some,
raise, rapid, raring to, ratifying, ready and willing,
ready for anything, ready to, ready up, rear, recap, receptive, recondition, rehearse, repair, resourceful, responsive, retread, ripe, ripe for instruction,
sagacious, sanctioning, sanguine, scheming, schoolable, send to school,
serpentine, service, set, set to rights, settle
preliminaries, sew up, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skilled, skillful, sleepless, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, speedy, spirited, spry, statesmanlike, stealthy, steel, strategic, strengthen, stylish, subject to, submissive, subtile, subtle, summary, supple, sure, susceptible, swift, tactful, tactical, take in hand,
tan, teachable, the compleat, the
complete, thirsty for knowledge, timely, tinker, tinker up, to hand,
tractable, train, trainable, treat, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trim, try out, unblinking, ungrudging, unloath, unnodding, unrefusing, unreluctant, unsleeping, unsurprised, unwinking, up, up in arms, versatile, vigilant, virtuoso, vital, vivacious, vivid, vulpine, waiting, waiting for, wakeful, wary, watching for, well-disposed,
well-done, well-inclined, well-prepared, wherewithal, wide-awake,
willed, willing, willinghearted, wily, workmanlike, zealous, zestful