## Meanings
1. Fully prepared and able to do something or be used right away.
2. Willing and happy to do something.
3. To prepare someone or something for a particular purpose.
4. Quick to act, respond, or notice.

## Examples
- Are you ready to leave?
- I was ready to believe them.
- Get the children ready for school!
- She always has a ready answer for every question.

## Antonyms
- unready

## Derived Forms
- aim
- combat-ready
- harvest-ready
- overready
- readily
- readiment
- readiness
- ready-cooked
- ready-handed
- ready-handedness
- ready-made
- ready-meal

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₂er-
- Root: redy
- Root: rǣde
- Root: *garaidijaz
- Root: *h₂reh₁dʰ-
- Root: *reydʰ-

## 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, *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, re…

## AI Etymology
Ready comes 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". Modern senses include fully prepared and able to do something or be used right away. and willing and happy to do something.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as aim, combat-ready, harvest-ready, overready, readily, and readiment.

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