Synonyms for ready
ˈrɛd iready

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1. readyadjective

   Synonyms:
   good to go

2. readyadjective

   Prepared for immediate action or use.

   The troops are ready for battle.

   Synonyms:
   good to go

3. readyadjective

   Inclined; apt to happen.

   Synonyms:
   good to go

4. readyadjective

   Liable at any moment.

   The seed is ready to sprout.

   Synonyms:
   good to go

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1. ready

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, officious, prompt, quick, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

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1. ready

   Synonyms:
   prompt, alert, expeditions, speedy, unhesitating, dexterous, apt, skilful, handy, expert, facile, easy, opportune, fitted, prepared, disposed, willing, free, cheerful, compliant, responsive, quick

   Antonyms:
   unready, tardy, slow, hesitating, reluctant, dubitating, awkward, unhandy, clumsy, remote, inaccessible, unavailable, inopportune, ununited, unfitted, unprepared, indisposed, unwilling, constrained, grudging, unaccommodating, incompliant, irresponsive

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1. readyadjective

   poised for action

   "their guns were at the ready"

   Antonyms:
   unavailable, unripe, unwilling, napping, off one's guard(p), off-guard(a), unprepared, off her guard, unintelligent, stupid, off your guard, flat-footed, off guard(p), off his guard, unready

2. readyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   quick, ready(a)

   Antonyms:
   unavailable, unprepared, unready, off one's guard(p), stupid, unwilling, off guard(p), off your guard, off his guard, off-guard(a), unintelligent, flat-footed, napping, unripe, off her guard

3. ready(a)adjective

   (of especially money) immediately available

   "he seems to have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash"

   Antonyms:
   off guard(p), unprepared, stupid, unintelligent, napping, unripe, off your guard, off her guard, unavailable, off one's guard(p), off-guard(a), off his guard, unwilling, flat-footed, unready

4. readyadjective

   mentally disposed

   "he was ready to believe her"

   Synonyms:
   quick, ready(a)

   Antonyms:
   unready, stupid, off his guard, napping, unripe, off-guard(a), unavailable, off one's guard(p), unintelligent, off your guard, unwilling, off guard(p), unprepared, flat-footed, off her guard

5. readyadjective

   made suitable and available for immediate use

   "dinner is ready"

   Synonyms:
   quick, ready(a)

   Antonyms:
   off-guard(a), off her guard, napping, off your guard, unprepared, unready, flat-footed, stupid, off his guard, off one's guard(p), unwilling, unripe, off guard(p), unintelligent, unavailable

6. quick, readyverb

   apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

   "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"

   Synonyms:
   immediate, straightaway, warm, fast, speedy, spry, agile, nimble, quick, prompt, flying, ready(a)

   Antonyms:
   off her guard, unintelligent, napping, stupid, unready, flat-footed, off one's guard(p), unavailable, off his guard, unripe, off your guard, unwilling, unprepared, off-guard(a), off guard(p)

7. cook, fix, ready, make, prepareverb

   prepare for eating by applying heat

   "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"

   Synonyms:
   wee-wee, take, hit, bring in, desexualise, restore, construct, doctor, draw, stool, have, lay down, mend, piddle, hold, desex, piss, constitute, fudge, do, reach, earn, stimulate, get to, shit, fix, pay back, posit, name, falsify, fixate, define, make water, progress to, create, crap, take a shit, pretend, cook, gain, defecate, establish, pee, realize, train, make up, specify, bushel, develop, sterilise, give, unsex, attain, relieve oneself, pull in, set, wee, induce, form, spend a penny, touch on, make, gear up, limit, fake, prepare, micturate, deposit, furbish up, take in, machinate, organise, repair, score, get, secure, build, situate, make believe, throw, pass water, arrive at, pee-pee, sterilize, set up, ca-ca, devise, misrepresent, determine, puddle, take a crap, clear, produce, nominate, groom, educate, manipulate, organize, take a leak, fasten, pay off, desexualize, cause, urinate, get up, wangle, work, realise, seduce

   Antonyms:
   off guard(p), flat-footed, unprepared, unwilling, off his guard, off one's guard(p), off her guard, unready, napping, unavailable, off your guard, unintelligent, unripe, stupid, off-guard(a)

8. fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, setverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   localize, restore, organise, fructify, doctor, secure, cook, mend, touch on, launch, desex, jell, entrap, put, fixate, do, go under, congeal, effect, frame, place, fix, pay back, posit, install, set up, define, countersink, raise, lay, plant, coif, dress, found, specify, mark, arrange, establish, correct, fasten, train, effectuate, bushel, develop, sterilise, unsex, sterilize, set, desexualise, devise, make, sic, gear up, limit, get, prepare, put together, situate, coiffe, deposit, tack, furbish up, machinate, repair, pose, pitch, position, assemble, piece, rear, put in, typeset, rig, instal, order, ensnare, determine, coiffure, groom, erect, go down, put up, educate, organize, pay off, desexualize, localise, get up, lay out, adjust, tack together

   Antonyms:
   unripe, unavailable, off his guard, off-guard(a), off your guard, napping, unprepared, off her guard, unwilling, unready, unintelligent, off one's guard(p), stupid, flat-footed, off guard(p)

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1. readyadjective

   Synonyms:
   prepared, in readiness

2. readyadjective

   Synonyms:
   prompt, quick, expeditious

3. readyadjective

   Synonyms:
   apt, expert, dexterous, adroit, clever, quick, sharp, smart

4. readyadjective

   Synonyms:
   willing, disposed, inclined

5. readyadjective

   Synonyms:
   near, handy, convenient, commodious, at hand

6. readyadjective

   Synonyms:
   easy, opportune, facile, short

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1. List of paraphrases for "ready":

   prepared, willing, loan, loans, redo, lending, ready-made, paré, readiness, -ready, prompt, lends, prepare, list, ripe, available, lists

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How to use ready in a sentence?

1. Gene Oliver:

   When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears.

2. Alex Klymenok Alex Klymenok:

   For now, it's business as usual. But if they're here in Kiev, I'm ready to, I am prepared to fight.

3. Vladimir Putin:

   At any rate, we are ready for this, i believe that the ball is in America’s court.

4. Anthony Carrigan:

   I completely disregarded [ a nomination ] as a possibility, i just considered it to be such a long shot... It was actually Bill who texted me. I was in my hotel room getting ready to go to set for' Bill Ted 3, and Bill texted me,' Congrats, dude.' That's it -- no exclamation point, no nothing. I was like,' On what ? Did the show get nominated ?' And he said,' You got nominated,' So that was a really, really cool moment. And I just kind of had to stare at the floor for a few minutes.

5. Todd Hare:

   When you're faced with a situation requiring a self-control dilemma, you will be ready with an alternative way to handle it.