Meanings
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1
adj
Fully prepared and able to do something or be used right away.
Are you ready to leave?
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2
adj
Willing and happy to do something.
I was ready to believe them.
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3
verb
To prepare someone or something for a particular purpose.
Get the children ready for school!
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4
adj
Quick to act, respond, or notice.
She always has a ready answer for every question.
Thesaurus
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…