Ready

Definition: Ready

Ready

Adjective

1. 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".

2. (of especially money) immediately available; "he seems to have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash".

3. Mentally disposed; "he was ready to believe her".

4. Brought into readiness; "dinner is ready".

5. Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit".

Noun

1. Poised for action; "their guns were at the ready".

Verb

1. Prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?" "fix breakfast for the guests, please".

2. Make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ready" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Literature

Military

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Ready

Activity

Quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast; (swift); quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake; go-ahead, live wide-awake; (intelligent).

Expectation

Adjective: expectant; expecting; Verb: in expectation; Noun: on the watch; (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to.

Preparation

Prepared; Verb: in readiness; ready, ready to one's band, ready made, ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table; in gear; in working order,in working gear; snug; in practice.

Skill

Adjective: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart; (active); proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant; (knowing).

Utility

Applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious, adaptable; of all work.

Crosswords: Ready

Mr. Jones, are we ready to release our new software (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Get ready for greatness Lloyd (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

Rohan, my lord, is ready to fall (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Ready to take you around the way (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

I dont think you ready (More Than A Woman; performing artist: Aaliyah)

With a missy who was ready to play (Walk This Way; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Cause my heart ain’t ready (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

COS I'LL BE HERE RIGHT BY YOUR SIDE READY TO FLOW (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection. (references; author: unknown)

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promised note. Today is ready cash, use it! (references; author: unknown)

Ready for Anything! (1968)

Over 18... and Ready! (1968)

Are You Ready for the... (1965)

Ready for the People (1964)

Woolen and Able Ready (1960)

I'M READY FOR LOVE  (performing artist: Martha & Vandellas )

Get Ready (performing artist: Rare Earth)

I'll Open My Mouth To The Lord/ I'll Be Ready (performing artist: Sounds of Blackness)

Yes, I'm Ready (performing artist: Teri DeSario with K.C.)

I'm Ready (performing artist: Tevin Campbell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Labor Ready Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Chilled Ready Meals: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Chilled Fish and Shellfish-based Ready Meals (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Ambient Ready, Dry Main Meals: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Ambient Ready, Dry Main Meals: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• More Ready Than You Realize (reference)

• Organizing Plain and Simple: A Ready Reference Guide With Hundreds Of Solutions to Your Everyday Clutter Challenges (reference)

• The Slow-Cooker Ready & Waiting Cookbook: 160 Sumptuous Meals That Cook Themselves (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Getting Ready (reference)

• Ready (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ready to Wear (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Always Ready Semper Paratus (reference)

• People Get Ready (reference)

• Ready to Die [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Zion Ready (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Disney's Ready For Math with Pooh (Jewel Case) (reference)

• Office Ready Family Essentials (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Adobeair IH3000 Ready Warmth Instant Heater (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a mother with children standing in a farm setting on a summer day. One of the girls is holding a bucket, ready to pick berries. These people are members of a Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The schizont stages of Plasmodium spp. development include the formation of merozoites, which in this case, are ready to be released back into the blood to once again begin schizogony, infecting new red blood cells, or grow into gametocytes. Credit: CDC.

Armed and Ready. Credit: NASA.

Astronaut Edward White Ready For Gemini IV Liftoff. Credit: NASA.

Sedated bear - Ursus maritimus - ready for measurement and tagging. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program studies. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Steve Amstrup of USFWS with large sedated polar bear - Ursus maritimus. Bears were measured and tagged for future study. This sedated male was ready for the WWF with a 45 inch neck and weighing about 1400 pounds. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

William M. Scaife Ready to cross Twin Glacier Bill Scaife with rope. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Alaska Peninsula - Getting ready to set up. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A pineapple plant with the fruit nearly ready to harvest. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Biologs ready to be installed as an erosion buffer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They are ready to tell you, that it deserves death only to ask after safety. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She could now look forward to giving him that full and perfect confidence which her disposition was most ready to welcome as a duty

The fish hurried up by the dozens, All ready and eager to bite, For the lad that he flung was so tender and young, It quite gave them an appetite

His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most

He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament

Let us be ready for the snare

He is there in the tabernacle burning with love for mankind, ready to comfort the afflicted

Is all things ready for the royal time

The women moved cautiously out of the doorways toward their men, and the children crept behind the women, cautiously, ready to run.

I saw Caesar and Pompey at the head of their troops, just ready to engage

By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

When she again feeds, these sporozoites will be ready to renew the cycle. (references)

Blood that is ready for gas exchange will flow through these capillaries. (references)

Parents should be ready to adjust treatment for their child's changing needs. (references)

Business

Waste oil can be re-refined into base stock oil ready for blending. (references)

The British market offers foreign franchisers a ready pool of potential franchisees. (references)

Work in progress includes goods which have been started but are not yet ready for sale. (references)

Children

Botswana

It also continued to allocate a large part of its investment expenditures to construct primary and secondary schools, so children have ready access to education. (references)

Mongolia

Those who have been injured in industrial accidents have the right to be reemployed when ready to resume work, and the Government offers free retraining in 6 fields at a central technical school. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

There are concerns that some members of minority ethnic groups, such as the Montagnards, who live in the Central Highlands may not have ready access to these programs because the Government denied them passports. (references)

Economic History

Australia

Environmental opportunities are ready to be found. (references)

Poland

Poland allows imports of "Round-Up Ready " soybeans. (references)

Philippines

This will also increase prospects for U.S. consumer ready products exports. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

The defendants were given free choice of and ready access to counsel. (references)

Barbados

Criminal defendants have the right to counsel, and attorneys have ready access to their clients. (references)

Peru

This is generally attributed to the fact that some women arrive at a clinic ready to give birth and request the sterilization procedure be performed that day, rather than having to make arrangements to return to the clinic at another time. (references)

Political Economy

BRAZIL

Brazil has an approval process for biogenetically altered agricultural products, which resulted in the approval of Roundup Ready soybeans in 1998. (references)

DENMARK

In addition, the Danish economy, due to its dependence on foreign developments, is flexible and ready to adapt rapidly to changed world developments. (references)

OMAN

Industrial parks have been set up throughout the country to provide investors with subsidized sites and services ready for light manufacturing plants. (references)

Political Rights

Kenya

The new Commission is expected to have a draft constitution ready by October 2002. In July at the start of the CKRC hearings, the President declared that NGO's and churches should not involve themselves with the review process and should not engage in civic education. (references)

Mauritania

Although voters in theory could take the unused cards out of the polling place with them, the ready availability of many unused cards on the floor makes the cards worthless as evidence of how a voter has voted and effectively eliminates the potential for abuse in such a multiple ballot system. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Then, the product is ready to be marketed. (references)

Travel

Korea

Americans should be ready to mix business with social life as the Koreans base their business relationships on personal ones. (references)

Portugal

They are thorough to a fault, often pouring over all the documents relative to a negotiation, and not too ready "to just hit the highlights". (references)

Korea

Businesspersons should always have their (preferably bilingual) business cards at the ready and should treat the exchange of Korean counterpart's card with respect. (references)

Women

Ghana

In some cases in which FGM is performed, the victims actively seek out practitioners, sometimes without their parents' knowledge, in a quest to become ready for marriage. (references)

Worker Rights

Bhutan

The country lacks a large pool of ready labor; for major projects, such as road works, the Government brings in hired laborers from India. (references)

Romania

The same study found that 38 percent of single women and girls aged 15 to 25 and 20 percent of women and girls who lived with their parents were ready to emigrate to a foreign job. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Making ready

Ready

Expressions using "ready": about ready ♦ All ready ♦ anytime you're ready ♦ at the ready ♦ be ready ♦ be ready to do ♦ camera ready ♦ combat ready ♦ combat ready aircraft ♦ data Terminal Ready ♦ disconnected not ready off ♦ ever ready ♦ find a ready market ♦ get a meal ready ♦ get ready ♦ get ready for it! ♦ get ready for smth. ♦ get smth. ready ♦ have a ready tongue ♦ have ready ♦ hold oneself ready ♦ hold ready ♦ i am ready ♦ i'll be ready in a half a minute ♦ just ready ♦ keep ready ♦ make ready ♦ making ready ♦ meal ready to eat ♦ not ready ♦ not ready for prime time ♦ now ready ♦ obtain a ready admission ♦ pen of a ready writer ♦ permanently ready ♦ permit expiration/clearance ready notice message ♦ ready about! ♦ ready and waiting ♦ ready assets ♦ ready cash ♦ ready for action ♦ ready for battle ♦ ready for help ♦ ready for moving into ♦ ready for occupancy ♦ ready for occupation ♦ ready for press ♦ ready for print ♦ ready for service ♦ ready for takeoff ♦ ready for the press ♦ ready for the scrap heap ♦ ready for use ♦ ready made ♦ ready money ♦ ready pen ♦ ready position ♦ ready reaction group ♦ ready reckoner ♦ ready reserve ♦ ready sense ♦ ready state ♦ ready to ♦ ready to burst ♦ ready to burst forth ♦ ready to cry ♦ ready to do ♦ ready to drop ♦ ready to hand ♦ ready to help ♦ ready to leave ♦ ready to order ♦ ready to print ♦ ready to serve ♦ ready to sink ♦ ready to start school ♦ ready to use ♦ ready to wear ♦ ready to wear clothes ♦ ready up ♦ receive ready ♦ rough and ready ♦ stand ready receive orders ♦ the ready ♦ To make ready ♦ uncontrolled not ready ♦ what are we waiting for? whenever you're ready. Additional references.

Beginning with "ready": ready-assembled, ready-bottled, ready-bought, ready-brewed, ready-calorie-counted, ready-chopped, ready-combed, ready-compressed, ready-configured, ready-cooked, ready-cut, ready-filled, ready-filleted, ready-finished, ready-fitted, ready-flavoured, ready-for-action, ready-formed, ready-for-service, ready-growing, ready-interleaved, ready-laden, ready-laid, ready-lined, ready-loaded, ready-made, ready-made clothes, ready-made clothing, ready-made food, ready-made suit, ready-mades, ready-marinated, ready-market, ready-meal, ready-meals, ready-mix, ready-mixed, ready-money, ready-moulded, ready-packaged, ready-packed, ready-painted, ready-pasted, ready-peeled, ready-planned, ready-poured, ready-prepared, ready-printed, ready-reckoner, ready-reference, ready-rehearsed, ready-roasted, ready-rolled, ready-rubbed, ready-salted, ready-sealed, ready-seasoned, ready-set-go, ready-shelled, ready-sliced, ready-strung, ready-tailored, ready-taped, ready-to, ready-to-assemble, ready-to-bake, ready-to-cook food, ready-to-drink, ready-to-eat, ready-to-feed, ready-to-fill, ready-to-fit, ready-to-fly, ready-to-hand, ready-to-jump, ready-torn, ready-to-roll, ready-to-run, ready-to-send, ready-to-serve, ready-to-serve food, ready-to-use, ready-to-wear, ready-trained, ready-use, ready-washed, Ready-witted, ready-written.

Ending with "ready": alpha-ready, camera-ready, network-ready, oven-ready, over-ready, pentium-ready, too-ready.

Containing "ready": camera-ready copy, camera-ready-copy, make-ready time, oven-ready goods.

Afrikaans

gereed (finished, through), bereid (finished, through), klaar (already, by now, finished, through, yet), bereidvaardig (kind, obliging, willing). (various references)

Albanian

para në dorë (cash, cash in hand, ready money), paguaj me para në dorë, korruptoj (buy, corrupt, nobble, suborn), i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), i gatshëm (agreeable, available, content, fain, fit, forthcoming, forward, game, glad, inclined, off the peg, predisposed, prepared, ready made, ready to wear, ready-for-service, willing, wishful), gati (about, all but, almost, at hand, but, in line, in store, much, nearly, picked, practically, prepared, pretty, scarcely, virtual, well nigh), dakord (agreed, all right, alright). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هيأ (adapt, arm, dress, fix, gear, get, make, predestine, prepare), ‏أعد (activate, dish, dispose, draft, dress, engage, engross, fit, get smb. working, pass, plan, put up), ‏أعد حضر (concoct, give one's word, groom, prepare, promise), ‏إستعد (brace, get ready, groom, prepare, provide against, run in, stand by, tool up, wind up), ‏إستعداد (aptitude, arrangement, fittings, forthcoming, predisposition, preparation, preparedness, readiness, willingness), ‏سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, hasty, momentary, nippy, precipitate, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, rife, smart, snappy, speed, speedy, swift), ‏رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, lively, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy), ‏حاضر (attendant, current, discourse, give a lecture, harangue, lecture, present, present day), ‏في متناول اليد (reachable, within his grasp, within reach), ‏معد (catching, catchy, communicable, contagious, designed, destined, infectious, intended, preparator, prepared, transmissible), ‏مستعد (all set, fit, pat, prepared, willing), ‏متأهب, ‏متحفز (all set, prepared), ‏متوفر (available, obtainable), ‏مهيأ (all set, prepared), ‏تهيئ (trim). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), пара (coin, exhalation, money, necessary, reek, steam, vapor, vapour), подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, limber, lissome, lithe, live, lively, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile), подготвен (prepared, qualified, trained), подръчен (available), положение на оръдие за стрелба, приготвен (made, prepared), пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, purse, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, stuff, tin, vapor, vapour, wad, wampum), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), склонен (affected, given, inclinable, inclined, intent, minded, prone, set, subject, willed, willing), лесен (easy, effortless, facile, liveable, potty, ready made, runaway, simple, smooth, snap, soft), нагласен (fixed, put up), наклонен (downhill, hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, oblique, one sided, prone, rampant, scalene, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloped, sloping, splay, supine), охотен (cheerful, willing, zesty), готов (eager, fit, game, glib, ready made, ready to wear, ready-for-service, ripe, set, store, unhesitating), чевръст (alert, light footed, nimble, prompt, slippy, smart, spry), приготвям (fix, get ready, make, make ready, make up, prepare, put up). (various references)

Chinese 

迅速 (Quickly, RAPID, speedy), 願意 (to want, to wish, willing), 願 (desire, hope, willing, wish), 得 (a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect, allow, contented, degree or possibility, finished, gain, get, must, obtain, ought to, permit, proper, proud, suitable, to have to, to need to), 將 (a general, prepared, to get, to use), 就緒 (in order), 妥當 (appropriate, proper). (various references)

Czech

rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, high speed, nippy, quick, rapid, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed), uvařený (boiled), pohotový (adroit, nimble, offhand, Pat, prompt, quick, swift), připravený (go, prepared), ochotný (accommodating, compliant, forthcoming, helpful, obliging, ungrudging, willing), hotový (accomplished, complete, done, finished, oft-shelf, prepared, ready made, regular, veritable). (various references)

Danish

færdig (finished, through). (various references)

Dutch

klaar (bright, clear, clearly, completed, distinct, done, finished, light, obvious, over, plain, through), gereed (finished, through), afgelopen (completed, done, finished, last, over, through), af (finished, through). (various references)

Esperanto

servopreta (obliging, willing), preta (finished, through). (various references)

Faeroese

til reiðar (finished, through), liðugur (finished, through). (various references)

Farsi 

مهیاکردن , حاضرکردن , اماده کردن (Dight, Gird, Prime, Provide, Unlimber), اماده (Able, Apt, Beforehand, Fresh, Handy, Lief, Present, Prompt, Provided, Stock, Yare). (various references)

Finnish

valmis (completed, finished, prepared, through). (various references)

French

prêt (reckoner). (various references)

Frisian

ree (cash, finished, in cash, through), dien (completed, done, finished, over, through). (various references)

German

bereit (disposed, finished, game, inclinable, patly, prepared, preparedly, promptly, raring, readily, set, through, willing, willingly), fertig (all in, completed, done, done in, finished, mature, over, qualified, readily, ready made, set, shattered, through, thru). (various references)

Greek 

έτοιμος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מוכן (all set, already, bound, made, prepared, prompt, set, willing), מזומן (destined, prepared), להכין (concoct, get ready, groom, prepare), עתיד (future tense, prepared), זמין (available, cashable, going, on tap, ready to order), הכן (firmly, on guard, stand fast), נכון (clear, correct, exact, just, o.k., prepared, proper, right, sound, true). (various references)

Hungarian

kész (accomplished, hand-me-down, he's dead and done for, made, ready for every emergency, ready to conveyance, thoroughgoing, to be fain to do sg), hajlandó (content, disposed, minded, to be game, willing). (various references)

Icelandic

reiðubúinn (obliging, willing), tillbúinn (finished, through). (various references)

Indonesian

siap (standby), siaga, sedia (available, willing), kelar (done, finished, in order, settled), ikhlas (aboveboard, prepared, sincere, sincerity, with full surrender), bercadang (prepared). (various references)

Irish

ullamh (finished, through, willing). (various references)

Italian

pronto (alert, apt, finished, fit, game, hallo, hello, hullo, inclined, Pat, prepared, prompt, quick, ripe, set, speedy, through), disposto (affected, apt, disposed, inclined, minded, prepared, prone, willing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

有り合せ (anything available, on hand), 有り合わせ (anything available, on hand), 気さく (candid, frank, good humored, openhearted, sociable, willing), 出来上がり (be finished, cut out, made for). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きさく (candid, clever scheme, frank, good humored, openhearted, sociable, willing), できあがり (be finished, cut out, made for), ありあわせ (anything available, on hand). (various references)

Korean 

준비되어 있는 (Readier, Readiest). (various references)

Malay

siap (finished, through). (various references)

Manx

shiaullaghey (equip, equip as boat, fit out, prepare, rig, tune, tune as engine, tune up, tuning), mie (fair, favourable, good, goodly, goodness, moral, nice, pious, virtue, virtuous), kiartaghey (accommodate, accommodate arrange, adjust, adjusting, amend, correct, correct as mistake, correction, even out, fix, make, modification, modify, preparation, prepare, qualify, rectification, redress, setting, settle, settling, true), jesh (adept, becoming, elegant, fancy, felicitous, groomed, neat, righthand, rightwing, seemly, smart, starboard;nice, suitable, tidy, trim), arryltagh (spontaneous, voluntary, volunteer, willing), aarlooid (preparation, preparedness, readiness), aarloo (operational). (various references)

Papago

shelchuth (to get ready). (various references)

Papiamen

kla (clear, distinct, finished, obvious, plain, through). (various references)

Pidgin English

reade. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadyray.(various references)

Polish

gotowy (finished, through). (various references)

Portuguese

pronto (finished, hullo, pat, prepared, prompt, speedy, through, unhesitating), prestes (through), preparado (benefication, lead up, made, preparation, prepared, trained), disposto (content, disposed, forward, game, inclinable, minded, organized, prepared, through, willing). (various references)

Quechua

ñachu (ready yet). (various references)

Romanian

gata (finished, game, i'm past it, minded, packed, prepared, prompt, through). (various references)

Russian 

готовый (fit, forward, get ready, hand-me-down, made, mature, off the peg, off-the-shelf, prepared, reach, ready made, ready to, ready to wear, ready-for-service, ready-made, willing). (various references)

Scottish

ullamh (finished, prepared, through), deiseil (finished, southward, through). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

voljan (game, minded, voluntary, willing), spreman (pat, prepared, present, prompt, ready-for-service, set, willing), pripravan, podesan (becoming, compatible, felicitous, fitting, opportune, pat, proper, snug, suitable, timely, well-suited), oran (disposed, inclined), mobilan (mobile), gotovs, gotovina (cash, ready cash, ready money), gotov (completed, finished, officinal, over, prepared, prompt, ready made, through). (various references)

Spanish

preparado (concoct, dispensed, drafted, extract, laid, preparation, prepared, ready-for-service, trained), listo (able, all set, apt, brainy, clever, cute, finished, fit, nimble, nippy, poised, prepared, quick-witted, ripe, set, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, tap, through). (various references)

Swahili

tayari (finished, through). (various references)

Swedish

redo (finished, fit, through), färdig (complete, completed, done, earthy, finished, fit, full-fledged, game, off-the-shelf, on the point of, prepared, set, sound, through, worn out), påpasslig (attentive, prompt), klar (bright, clear, clear-cut, distinct, explicit, limpid, liquid, lucid, luminous, obvious, patent, perspicuous, plain, set, sharp, Square, undoubted), beredvillig (willing), beredd (prepared, set). (various references)

Thai

กระปรี้กระเปร่า (rough and ready). (various references)

Tswana

ipakanyeditse, ipaakantse. (various references)

Turkish

razı (agreeable, consentient, content, contented, willing), hazır para (bankroll, ready cash, ready money, the ready), alesta (finished, through), amade, becerikli (adept, adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise), el altındaki, eldeki (available, in hand, in stock), gönüllü (voluntary, volunteer, willing), gündelik (casual, casually, daily, daily fee, day-to-day money, everyday, leisure, per diem, quotidian, workaday), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hasty, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, sharp, snappy, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly), hazır (agreeable, at hand, available, content, cut and dried, disposed, finished, forthcoming, forward, game, go, handy, in the mood for, in train, officinal, on, on hand, on one's mettle, on tap, operational, prepared, present, prompt, quick, reach-me-down, ready made, readymade, ripe, snappy, stand by, up for, willing), hazırlıklı (fail-proof, fail-safe, prepared, provident), her günkü (day to day, diurnal, everyday, of every day, per diem, quotidian, routine, usual), istekli (agog, ambitious, anxious, applicant, aspirant, athirst for, cheerful, covetous, dead set, desirous, devout, disposed, eager, enthusiastic, forward, full of zeal, hellbent, inclinable, inclined, intense, intent, itching, itchy, keen, minded, solicitous, strong, thirsty, voracious, willing, wishful, wistful), klişeleşmiş (groovy, routine, stereotyped, well worn), kolay (cushy, downhill, easy, effortless, facile, flowing, open and shut, simple, smooth, straightforward, uncomplicated, unlaboured), kullanıma hazır (on call, operational), nakit (bankroll, cash, hard cash, hard money, in specie, liquidity, money, prompt, ready cash, ready money, specie, the ready), peşin para (cash, for cash, hard cash, hard money, ready cash, ready money, spot cash, the ready), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy). (various references)

Turkmen 

taяyarlyly, taяяyn, taяяar, hдzir (at present, now). (various references)

Ukrainian

готувати (brew, concoct, cook, do, dress), готівка (cash), готовий (finished, game, game for smth., hand-me-down, minded, officinal, prepared, provided, reach-me-down, ready made, ready to wear, ready-cooked, ready-for-service, ripe, willing), моторний (adroit, agile, alert, dapper, dashing, deft, dexterous, lissome, lithesome, mercurial, motor, nimble, nippy, spry, volant), згодний (agreeable, consent, consentient, consonant, content, game for smth., like minded, right-ho), підготовляти (arrange, get ready, make ready, prepare), піддатливий (accessible, amenable, applicant, compliant, flexible, malleable, plastic, pliant, sequacious, squeezable, supple, waxen, waxy), приготування (arrangements, preliminary, preparation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sẵn sàng sẵn lòng để sẵn cố ý, sẵn, sắp sửa có sẵn, ngay tức khắc; lưu loát dễ dàng ở gần, mau (fleet, hotfoot, short order), cú; có khuynh hướng sắp, đúng tầm tay luôn luôn có lý do để bào chữa. (various references)

Welsh

parod (apt, finished, prepared, prompt, through). (various references)

Wolof

pare. (various references)

accincta, accinctaeque, accincti, accinctisque, accinctos, accinctum, accinctus, accinctusque, adparatum, adparatus, alacer, alacri, apta, aptas, apti, aptum, aptus, facile, facilem, facili, faciliora, faciliori, facilis, facilius, parâtus, parata, paratae, paratam, parate, parati, paratis, parato, paratorum, paratos, paratum, paratus, praeparo, praeparo, preparo, praesto, praestoque, proclivus, prompta, prompti, promptiores, promptissima, prompto, promptum, promptus, solers. (various references)

fus, gearo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "ready": readying, readymade, readymades. (additional references)

Words ending with "ready": already, bready, gingerbready, makeready, thready, unready. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ready" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aready, cready, dready, Genady, gready, meady, Pregaday, raddy, radgy, radly, rady, raeda, raedy, Rahdy, reade, readie, readly, reaky, Reany, reapy, reay, Recadi, Redab, reddy, redy, Reedie, Reedijk, rehay, Reidh, Reidij, reiy, relayd, remady, resay, Rheade, roady, roudy, tready. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deary, deray, rayed.

-1 letter: aery, dare, dear, dray, dyer, eyra, read, yard, yare, year.

-2 letters: are, aye, day, dey, dry, dye, ear, era, rad, ray, red, rya, rye, yar, yea.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, ay, de, ed, er, re, ya, ye.

+1 letter: brayed, bready, dearly, defray, denary, derays, drapey, drayed, dreamy, dreary, frayed, grayed, hydrae, prayed, redbay, yarded, yarned.

+2 letters: already, ardency, arrayed, beeyard, daresay, dasyure, daubery, daymare, deanery, decayer, defrays, delayer, dietary, dramedy, drapery, drayage, draymen, dryable, dryades, feodary, feudary, forayed, gaudery, gyrated, hayride, hydrase, hydrate, hydriae, keycard, layered, lyrated, midyear, pedlary, raggedy, readily, redbays, relayed, reynard, sprayed, strayed, thready, tragedy, unready, yardage, yardmen, yearend, yearned, zedoary.