ready
Forms
- Comparative
- readier
- Superlative
- readiest
- Plural
- readies
- present (v1)
- ready
- past (v2)
- readied
- past participle (v3)
- readied
- present participle
- readying
- 3rd person singular
- readies
Definitions
1.Prepared for immediate action or use.
- The porridge is ready to serve.
- The troops are ready for battle.
- I made ready to set out on my journey.
2.Inclined; apt to happen.
- I told you Tom was ready.
3.Liable at any moment.
- My heart is ready to crack.
- The seed is ready to sprout.
4.Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
- "Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.
1.To prepare; to make ready for action.
- Immigration agents in military green surrounded MacArthur Park as the convoy readied for a show of force akin to a Hollywood movie.
1.Ready money; cash.(slang)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #642
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("prepared, prompt, ready, ready for riding (horse), mounted (on a horse), skilled, simple, easy"), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready".