Definitions for Ready

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Ready read·y

Spelling: [red-ee]

IPA: /ˈrɛd i/

Ready is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in Ready (adery).

Definitions for Ready

noun

1. the state or condition of being ready.
2. Informal. ready money; cash.

Idioms

1. at the ready, in a condition of readiness, available for immediate use:
2. get ready!, (in calling the start of a race) be prepared to start:
3. make ready, to bring to a state of readiness or completion; prepare. Printing. to ready a press for printing.
4. ready up, British and Australian Slang. to swindle.

adjective

1. completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use:
2. duly equipped, completed, adjusted, or arranged, as for an occasion or purpose:
3. willing:
4. prompt or quick in perceiving, comprehending, speaking, writing, etc.
5. proceeding from or showing such quickness:
6. prompt or quick in action, performance, manifestation, etc.:
7. inclined; disposed; apt:
8. in such a condition as to be imminent; likely at any moment:
9. immediately available for use:
10. pertaining to prompt payment.
11. present or convenient:

interjection

1. (used in calling the start of a race to indicate that racers should be prepared to start):

verb (used with object)

1. to make ready; prepare.

Origin of Ready

1150-1200; Middle English redy, early Middle English rædig, equivalent to Old English rǣde prompt + -ig -y¹

Examples for Ready

At length the servant returned, saying his master was now ready to see them.

Launched late last week, ready for Romney appears to be, at best, political amateur hour.

He took me right into his office, and I told him what you said, and he'll be ready for you at two o'clock.

The question is, do we need, or are we ready for, super high-end designer drawers for dudes?

Besides, he had four quarts left, for which he expected to find a ready sale.

The U.S. military just unveiled a new effort to get Iraqis ready to battle ISIS.

Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”

If he did, it could be a sign that our politicians are ready to resume genuine policy-making across party lines.

Sit here, and we'll talk it over sensibly, before you get ready.

But in good time the Lybian pipe warns us that the feast is ready.