ready

Meaning

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

prepared

prepared for

make ready

in readiness

wired for sound

ready cash

prepare for shooting

hard currency

officious

ready for

trenchant

fully developed

have on hand

made for

make acceptable

on the point of

out to

good humored

anything available

appetent

combat-ready

lined up

on alert

on the ready

combat ready

having the neck uplifted

in comp

on the point

unexceeded

willing and able

on watch

prepared willing to

be all set

at call

good humoured

Frequency

Hyphenated as

read‧y

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛd.i/

From Middle English redy, redi, rædiȝ, iredi, ȝerǣdi, alteration ( + -y) of earlier irēd, irede, ȝerād (“ready, prepared”), from Old English rǣde, ġerǣde (also ġerȳde) ("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 *h₂reh₁dʰ-, *h₂reh₁- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) 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 (“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 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”).