ready

English

Etymology

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 (“ready”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēidh-, *rēi- (“to count, put in order, arrange, make comfortable”) and also probably conflated with Proto-Indo-European *reidh- (“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”), Icelandic greiður (“easy, light”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (garaiþs, “arranged, ordered”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“row, order, run, ride”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕd'i, IPA: /ˈɹɛdi/, X-SAMPA: /"r\Edi/

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  Homophones: reddy

  Rhymes: Rhymes: -ɛdi

• Hyphenation: read‧y

Adjective

ready (comparative readier, superlative readiest)

1. Prepared for immediate action or use.

   The troops are ready for battle.

2. Inclined; apt to happen.
3. Liable at any moment.

   The seed is ready to sprout.

Synonyms

• good to go

Translations

Prepared for immediate action or use

• Arabic: جاهز (ar) (jaahiz), مستعد (ar) (musta3id)
• Armenian: պատրաստ (hy) (patrast)
• Belarusian: гатовы (be) (hatóvyj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 准備好的 (cmn), 准备好的 (cmn) (zhǔnbèi hǎo de)

• Czech: připravený (cs) m
• Dutch: gereed (nl), klaar (nl)
• Finnish: valmis (fi)
• French: prêt (fr) m, prête (fr) f
• German: bereit (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἑτοῖμος

• Hawaiian: mākaukau
• Hebrew: מוכן (he) (mukhan)
• Hindi: तैयार (hi) (taiyār)
• Hungarian: kész (hu)
• Icelandic: tilbúinn (is) m, undirbúinn (is) m
• Irish: réidh (ga), ullamh (ga)
• Italian: pronto (it), preparato (it)
• Japanese: 用意の出来た (ja) (よういのできた, yōi-no dekita), 出来上がり (ja) (dekiagari), 準備の出来た (ja) (junbi-no dekita)

• Korean: 준비된 (ko) (junbi-doen)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاماده‌ (ku)

• Latgalian: gotovs m, sasarūss m
• Latin: promptus (la)
• Latvian: gatavs (lv)
• Lojban: bredi (jbo)
• Norwegian: klar (no), parat (no)
• Persian: آماده (fa) (āmāda(e)), رو به راه (fa) (ru be rāh)
• Polish: gotowy (pl), gotów (pl) m, gotowi (pl) pl
• Portuguese: pronto (pt) m, preparado (pt) m
• Russian: готовый (ru) (gotóvyj)
• Scots: boun
• Spanish: preparado (es), listo (es)
• Swedish: beredd (sv)
• Telugu: సిద్ధం (te) (siddham), తయారు (te) (tayaaru)
• Turkish: hazır (tr)
• Ukrainian: готовий (uk) (hotóvyj)
• Urdu: تیار (ur) (taiyār)
• Welsh: barod (cy)

Inclined, apt to happen

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: حاضر (ħāḍir), مستعد (mustaʕídd)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: მზად (ka) (mzad)
• Icelandic: tilbúinn (is) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: حازر

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: beredt (no), rede (no)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: redo (sv)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: meyyal (tr), razı (tr)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can

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• Albanian: gati
• Catalan: llest
• Croatian: gotov
• Czech: hotový
• Esperanto: preta
• Finnish: valmis (1), taipuvainen (2), altis (2)
• German: fertig, gar
• Greek: έτοιμος (étimos)
• Hungarian: kész
• Italian: pronto m, pronta f

• Latin: preparatus
• Malay: sedia
• Norwegian: klar (no)
• Romanian: gata
• Serbian: spreman
• Spanish: listo
• Telugu: సిద్ధం (te) (siddhaM), తయారు (te) (tayaaru)
• Turkish: hazır
• Welsh: parod

Verb

ready (third-person singular simple present readies, present participle readying, simple past and past participle readied)

1. To make prepared for action.

Translations

to make prepared for action

• Arabic: جَهّزَ (jáhhaza)
• Hungarian: készül (hu)
• Italian: preparare (it)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئاماده‌کردن

• Portuguese: preparar (pt), aprontar (pt)
• Spanish: preparar (es), alistar (es)

Derived terms

Related terms

at the ready cable ready camera-ready make-ready on the ready oven-ready ready, aim, fire! readiness ready-made

ready money ready or not ready reckoner ready room ready, set, go! ready, steady, go ready to hand ready-to-wear ready, willing, and able rough and ready

Related terms

• already

Noun

ready (countable and uncountable; plural readies)

1. (slang) ready money; cash
   • Arbuthnot

     Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: common · subject · can't · #441: ready · ought · written · arms

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