ready

Meanings

Adjective

• Prepared for immediate action or use.
• Inclined; apt to happen.
• Liable at any moment.
• Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
• Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.

Verb

• To prepare; to make ready for action.

Noun

• ready money; cash

Related

Similar words

• good to go
• yark

Opposite words

• unready

Broader meaning words

• cable ready
• camera-ready
• enterprise-ready
• make-ready
• oven-ready

Origin

• From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerædi, alteration (-y) of earlier ired, irede, ȝerad, from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) , from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz, *raidijaz, from base *raidaz, from Proto-Indo-European *rēydʰ-, *rēy- and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- ("to ride") in the sense of "set to ride, able or fit to go, ready". Cognate with Scots readie, reddy, 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 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 ("arranged, ordered").