Ready

Adjective

 * 1) Prepared for immediate action or use.
 * The troops are ready for battle.
 * 1) Inclined; apt to happen.
 * 2) Liable at any moment.
 * The seed is ready to sprout.

Synonyms

 * good to go

Verb

 * 1) To make prepared for action.

Adverbs for Ready
resolutely; instantly; finally; recently; altogether; promptly; eagerly; intrepidly; warily; vigilantly; alertly; evidently; providently;  prudently;   painfully;   carefully; scrupulously; always; unfailingly;

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
redy, rædig from Old English ræde, geræde < Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz ("arranged") + -y. Cognate with Danish rede:, Dutch gereed, German gerade and bereit, Old Norse greiðr and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: reddy
 * Rhymes: Rhymes: -ɛdi
 * Homophones: reddy
 * Rhymes: Rhymes: -ɛdi
 * Rhymes: Rhymes: -ɛdi

Adjective

 * Arabic: جاهز, مستعد
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: гатовы
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 准備好的, 准备好的
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: तैयार
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: réidh,
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 用意の出来た, 出来上がり,  準備の出来た
 * Korean: 준비된
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: gatavs
 * Lojban:
 * Polish:, gotów, gotowa, gotowe, gotowi
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సిద్ధం, తయారు
 * Ukrainian: готовий
 * Urdu: تیار


 * Arabic: (ħāḍir),  (mustaʕídd)


 * Kurdish:


 * Albanian: gati
 * Catalan: llest
 * Croatian: gotov
 * Czech: hotový
 * Esperanto: preta
 * Finnish: valmis (1), taipuvainen (2), altis (2)
 * German: fertig, gar
 * Greek: έτοιμος (étimos)
 * Hungarian: kész
 * Italian: pronto, pronta


 * Latin: preparatus, preparata , preparatum
 * Malay: sedia
 * Norwegian: klar
 * Romanian: gata
 * Serbian: spreman, spremna , spremno
 * Spanish: listo
 * Telugu: సిద్ధం (siddhaM), తయారు (tayaaru)
 * Turkish: hazır
 * Welsh: parod

Verb

 * Arabic: (jáhhaza)
 * Hungarian: készül
 * Italian: preparare


 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese: ,

Derived terms

 * at the ready
 * cable ready
 * camera-ready
 * make-ready
 * on the ready
 * oven-ready
 * ready, aim, fire!
 * readiness
 * ready-made


 * ready money
 * ready or not
 * ready reckoner
 * ready room
 * ready, set, go!
 * ready, steady, go
 * ready to hand
 * ready-to-wear
 * ready, willing, and able
 * rough and ready

Related terms

 * already

Anagrams

 * deary
 * rayed
 * yeard