ready
/'redi/
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Definition
Adjective:
- Prepared for immediate action or use: Being in a suitable state for something to happen or be done.
- Willing and eager: Having a positive disposition to do something without hesitation.
- Easily available or accessible: Something that can be obtained or used without delay.
- Quick and skillful: Showing promptness or ease in understanding, thinking, or responding.
Verb:
- To prepare: To make something or someone prepared for a particular purpose, event, or use.
Noun:
- The state of being prepared to act: Often used in the phrase "at the ready," indicating a state of immediate preparedness.
Examples of Usage
Adjective:
- Dinner is ready. (The meal is prepared and can be eaten now.)
- She is always ready to help. (She is always willing and prepared to offer assistance.)
- He has a ready answer for every question. (He has a quick and available answer.)
- Keep your passport ready. (Have your passport prepared and easily accessible.)
Verb:
- Please ready the conference room for the meeting. (Please prepare the conference room.)
- They are readying themselves for the long journey. (They are preparing themselves.)
Noun:
- The soldiers held their rifles at the ready. (The soldiers held their rifles in a position for immediate use.)
Advanced Usage
- "Ready, set, go!": A standard command to start a race, indicating the sequence: get prepared, get set, then begin.
- "Ready money" or "ready cash": Money in the form of cash that is immediately available for payment.
- He paid with ready money.
- "Too ready to...": An idiom implying an excessive or hasty tendency.
- He is too ready to criticize others. (He criticizes others too quickly or too often.)
Variants and Related Words
- Readily (adverb): Without hesitation or difficulty; willingly and quickly.
- She readily agreed to the proposal.
- Readiness (noun): The state of being fully prepared.
- The team's readiness for the challenge was impressive.
- Ready-made (adjective): Made in advance for general sale, not custom-made.
- He bought a ready-made suit.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Prepared, set, willing, eager, available, accessible, prompt, quick.
- Verb: Prepare, set, arrange, organize.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Ready up: (Informal, often in gaming) To prepare or get ready.
- We need to ready up before the mission starts.
- Get ready: To prepare oneself.
- We need to get ready to leave.
Related Idioms
- Rough and ready: Simple and prepared without attention to detail or comfort; basic but effective.
- It was a rough and ready solution, but it worked.
- Ready, willing, and able: Fully prepared and eager to do something.
- I am ready, willing, and able to start the new job.
- At the ready: In a state of complete preparation for immediate action.
- The security team stood at the ready.
Verb
- 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
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- Cook me dinner, please
- can you make me an omelette?
- fix breakfast for the guests, please
Adjective
- apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
- a quick mind
- a ready wit
- made suitable and available for immediate use
- dinner is ready
- mentally disposed
- he was ready to believe her
- (of especially money) immediately available
- he seems to have ample ready money
- a ready source of cash
- 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
Noun
- poised for action
- their guns were at the ready