READY meaning: Prepared and equipped for action

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word ready:

General (32 matching dictionaries)

ready, the ready: Merriam-Webster.com
ready: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
ready: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
ready, the ready: Collins English Dictionary
ready: Vocabulary.com
Ready, ready: Wordnik
ready: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Ready, ready: Wiktionary
ready: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
ready: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
ready: Infoplease Dictionary
Ready, Ready, ready, ready: Dictionary.com
ready: Online Etymology Dictionary
ready: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Ready: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ready: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
ready: Rhymezone
ready: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
ready: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Ready: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
ready: Free Dictionary
ready: Mnemonic Dictionary
Ready, ready: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
ready: Dictionary/thesaurus
ready: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

ready: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

ready: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
READY: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
ready: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

ready, ready, ready: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Prepared for immediate action or use.
▸ adjective:  Inclined; apt to happen.
▸ adjective:  Liable at any moment.
▸ adjective:  Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
▸ adjective:  Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To prepare; to make ready for action.
▸ noun:  (slang) Ready money; cash.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky, United States.

Similar:

prepared, set up, primed, in order, fit, set, available, make, waiting, prompt, more...

Opposite:

unprepared, unready, unequipped, indisposed, unfinished

Types:

prepared, willing, able, inclined, more...

Phrases:

be ready, not ready, get ready, all ready, made ready, more...

Adjectives:

old, nearly, observed, rough, and, poor, make, true, receive, full, external

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