ready
pronunciation
How to pronounce ready in British English:
UK [ˈredi]
How to pronounce ready in American English:
US [ˈredi]
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- Noun:
- poised for action
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- Verb:
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
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- Adjective:
- completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
- (of especially money) immediately available
- mentally disposed
- brought into readiness
- apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
Word Origin
- ready
- ready: [12] Ready is a derivative of Old English rǣde ‘ready’, which went back to a prehistoric Germanic *raithjō ‘arranged’, hence ‘prepared’. This also produced German bereit ‘ready’, Dutch gereed ‘ready’, and Swedish reda ‘ready’, and it lies behind the second syllable of curry ‘groom a horse’.
- ready (adj.)
- Old English ræde, geræde "prepared, ready," of a horse, "ready for riding," from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz "arranged" (cognates: Old Frisian rede "ready," Middle Dutch gereit, Old High German reiti, Middle High German bereite, German bereit, Old Norse greiðr "ready, plain," Gothic garaiþs "ordered, arranged"), from PIE root *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)). Lengthened in Middle English by change of ending. Ready-made first attested early 15c.; ready-to-wear is from 1890.
- ready (v.)
- early 13c., "to administer;" c. 1300, "to take aim;" mid-14c., "to prepare, make ready," from ready (adj.). Related: Readied; readying.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Have the information you need ready .
- 2. In each case , they have a ready scapegoat the government .
- 3. When the house was ready , the men made their first journey south .
- 4. And anyone will tell you : if you 're not ready nothing is going to change you .
- 5. No one is really ready .