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ready
English
Etymology
From Middle English redy, redi, rædi?, iredi, ?er?di, alteration ( +? -y) of earlier ir?d, irede, ?er?d (“ready, prepared”), from Old English r?de, ?er?de (also ?er?de) ("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 *r?yd?-, *r?y- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reyd?- (“to ride”) in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy (“ready, prepared”), West Frisian ree (“ready”), Dutch gereed (“ready”), German bereit (“ready”), Danish rede (“ready”), Swedish redo (“ready, fit, prepared”), Norwegian reiug (“ready, prepared”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?'di, IPA(key): /???.di/
- Homophone: reddy
- Rhymes: -?di
- Hyphenation: read?y
Adjective
ready (comparative readier, superlative readiest)
- Prepared for immediate action or use.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, journal to Stella
- she was told dinner was ready
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, journal to Stella
- Inclined; apt to happen.
- Liable at any moment.
- Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
- Synonyms: dexterous, prompt, easy, expert
- Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
- 1700, John Dryden, Theodore and Honoria
- A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.
- 1700, John Dryden, Theodore and Honoria
Synonyms
- good to go
Antonyms
- unready
Translations
Verb
ready (third-person singular simple present readies, present participle readying, simple past and past participle readied)
- (transitive) To prepare; to make ready for action.
Synonyms
- yark
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- foreready
- readily
- readiness
- ready-made
- ready-mixed
- ready-to-wear
Related terms
Translations
Noun
ready (countable and uncountable, plural readies)
- (slang) ready money; cash
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.
- 2008, Agnes Owens, The Group
- […] he was generous when he had the cash. Many a time he kept me going in drink through the week when I was stuck for the ready […]
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
Translations
Related terms
- already
Anagrams
- Yarde, dayer, deary, deray, rayed, yeard
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readd
English
Alternative forms
- re-add
Etymology
From re- +? add.
Verb
readd (third-person singular simple present readds, present participle readding, simple past and past participle readded)
- To add again.
See also
- reinsert
Anagrams
- adder, dared, dread, radde
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