Definition of ready

"ready" in the noun sense

1. ready

poised for action

"their guns were at the ready"

"ready" in the verb sense

1. cook, fix, ready, make, prepare

prepare for eating by applying heat

"Cook me dinner, please"

"can you make me an omelette?"

"fix breakfast for the guests, please"

2. fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set

make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

"Get the children ready for school!"

"prepare for war"

"I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

"ready" in the adjective sense

1. ready

completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress

"get ready"

"she is ready to resign"

"the bridge is ready to collapse"

"I am ready to work"

"ready for action"

"ready for use"

"the soup will be ready in a minute"

"ready to learn to read"

2. ready

of especially money) immediately available

"he seems to have ample ready money"

"a ready source of cash"

3. ready

mentally disposed

"he was ready to believe her"

4. ready

made suitable and available for immediate use

"dinner is ready"

5. quick, ready

apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

"a quick mind"

"a ready wit"

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Quotations for ready

Critics all are ready made. [ Byron ]

Ready money is a ready medicine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Your nut is ready cracked for you. [ Proverb ]

In a good house all is quickly ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All is soon ready in an orderly house. [ Proverb ]

A house ready made, but a wife to make. [ Proverb ]

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! [ William Shakespeare ]

Your egg is ready roasted to your hand. [ Proverb ]

When prayers are done my lady is ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Death ready stands to interpose his dart. [ Milton ]

Art is a ready means of access to royalty. [ Tiberius Maximus ]

They that are booted are not always ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is more eloquent than ready money. [ French Proverb ]

Where the will is ready the feet are light. [ Proverb ]

Who waits until the winds shall silent keep,
Will never have the ready hour to sow;
Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]

Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? [ German Proverb ]

You have always a ready mouth for a ripe cherry. [ Proverb ]

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set. [ Proverb ]

Where there are boots ready spurs may be wanting. [ Proverb ]

He that sharply chides is the most ready to pardon. [ Proverb ]

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. [ Garibaldi ]

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. [ Proverb ]

A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost. [ Proverb ]

Delay has always been injurious to those who are ready. [ Lucan ]

Hypocrisy is the ready homage that vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Pick-pockets are sure traders, for they take ready money. [ Proverb ]

A handy fellow who is ready to undertake all kinds of work. [ French ]

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. [ Colton ]

There are persons always standing ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The more women have risked, the more they are ready to sacrifice. [ Duclos ]

Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man always ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.

Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure. [ Mme. Roland ]

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Truth, and a soul that is ready for truth, meet like the fuel and the flame. [ Phillips Brooks ]

It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt - just a little? [ J. Petit-Senn ]

You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence. [ Sydney Smith ]

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. [ Bacon ]

Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to reopen. [ A. de Musset ]

Who more ready to call her neighbour scold, than the greatest scold in all the street? [ Proverb ]

The waiting tears stood ready for command, and now they flow to varnish the false tale. [ Rowe ]

The more tender our spirits are made by religion, the more ready we are to let in grief. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. [ Daniel Webster ]

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for iiis opportunity when it comes. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]

Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious aild merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. [ Bible ]

Bid the cheek be ready with a blush, modest as Morning when she coldly eyes the youthful Phoebus. [ William Shakespeare ]

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event. [ Euripides ]

The mind conscious of Innocence despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend. [ George MacDonald ]

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth. [ Lavater ]

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity! [ Jane Porter ]

The mob have neither judgment nor principle, - ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. [ Tacitus ]

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. [ Dr. Johnson ]

When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for? are the first trial questions to itself of a true soul. [ John Ruskin ]

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions. [ Aeschines ]

There are forty men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. [ Unknown ]

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. [ Colton ]

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into this world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. [ Richard Rumbold ]

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. [ Colton ]

Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who so lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die. [ Owen Feltham ]

Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct prescription. [ Whately ]

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. [ Epictetus ]

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Lord Bacon ]

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands. [ John Ruskin ]

If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate. [ T. C. Upham ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]

I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds
And offices of life; to life itself,
With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. [ Burns ]

We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the industries and technologies of tomorrow. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

The gracious and self-sacrificing and womanly women of our revolution wore dresses cut lower than those of their great-granddaughters, as any portrait gallery will show. The dress is indefensible, but let us not be too ready to condemn the wearer for worse sins than thoughtlessness and vanity. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means, said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. [ Mrs. Piozzi ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]

ready in Scrabble®

The word ready is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters ready:

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ready in Words With Friends™

The word ready is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters ready:

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Words containing the sequence ready

Words that start with ready (4 words)

Words with ready in them (1 word)

Words that end with ready (5 words)

Word Growth involving ready

Shorter words in ready

ad read

re read

Longer words containing ready

already

aready

readying

readymade readymades

thready

unready