ready

1. 1

   Prepared for immediate action or use.

   • I made ready to set out on my journey.
   • The troops are ready for battle.
2. 2

   Prepared for immediate action or use.; first only used predicatively, freely used from the end of the 17th century

   • a loaf of ready-sliced bread
   • The cave was like a ready-made home for us.
3. 3

   Inclined; apt to happen.

4. 4

   Liable at any moment.

   • The seed is ready to sprout.
5. 5

   Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.

   • a ready apprehension
   • ready wit
6. 6

   Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.

   • Through the wilde Deſert, not the readieſt way,
   • A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.

syn. good to go

ant. unready

1. 1

   To prepare; to make ready for action.transitive

   • Immigration agents in military green surrounded MacArthur Park as the convoy readied for a show of force akin to a Hollywood movie.

1. 1

   Ready money; cash.countableslanguncountable

   • [H]e vvas not fluſh in Ready, either to go to Lavv or clear old Debts, neither could he find good Bail: […]
   • But it's no secret that W. & S. have been getting short of the ready for more than a year now; it's claimed that the fire began in three or four places at once; and Mr Barrowford was the last to leave the premises.