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| Main Entry: | ready |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare |
| Synonyms: | arrange, brace, brief, clear the decks*, equip, fill in, fit, fix, fortify, get, gird, make, make up, order, organize, post, provide, set, strengthen, fit out, gear up, get ready, get set, keep posted, let in on, make ready, pave the way, prep, psych up, put on to, warm up, wise up |
| Antonyms: | hold back, retard, slow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ready |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prepared; available |
| Synonyms: | accessible, apt, at hand, completed, convenient, covered, equipped, expectant, fit, handy, near, on call, on tap*, on the brink*, organized, primed, qualified, ripe, set, wired*, adjusted, all set, all systems go, anticipating, arranged, at beck and call, at fingertips, at the ready, champing at bit, close to hand, equal to, fixed for, in line, in order, in place, in position, in readiness, in the saddle, on hand, open to, waiting |
| Antonyms: | immature, slow, unavailable, unprepared, unripe, unsuitable, unready |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ready |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing, inclined |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, apt, ardent, disposed, eager, enthusiastic, game, glad, happy, keen, minded, predisposed, prompt, prone, wired*, zealous, fain, game for, psyched up |
| Antonyms: | disinclined, unprepared, unwilling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ready |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skillful, intelligent |
| Synonyms: | active, acute, adept, adroit, alert, apt, astute, bright, brilliant, clever, deft, dexterous, dynamic, expert, handy, keen, live, masterly, perceptive, proficient, prompt, quick, quick-witted, rapid, resourceful, sharp, skilled, smart |
| Antonyms: | immature, slow, uneducated, unprepared, unskilled, untrained |
| Main Entry: | agile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally nimble, deft |
| Synonyms: | active, acute, alert, athletic, brisk, buoyant, clever, dexterous, energetic, fleet, frisky, limber, lithe, lively, mercurial, prompt, quick, quick-witted, rapid, ready, sharp, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, stirring, supple, swift, vigorous, vivacious, winged, zippy, bustling, easy-moving, quick on the draw, quick on the trigger, spright, twinkle toes |
| Antonyms: | brittle, clumsy, stiff |
| Main Entry: | alert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attentive, lively |
| Synonyms: | active, all ears, bright, cagey*, careful, circumspect, clever, fast on the draw, good hands, heads up, heedful, hip, intelligent, jazzed, observant, on guard*, on one's toes, on the ball*, on the job, on the lookout, on the qui vive, perceptive, psyched up, quick, ready, sharp, spirited, switched on, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake, wired*, wise, with it* |
| Antonyms: | asleep, drowsy, inattentive, lethargic, sluggish, unobservant, weary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | support |
| Synonyms: | bandage, bind, bolster, buttress, fasten, fortify, gird, hold up, prepare, prop, ready, reinforce, shove, steady, steel, strap, strengthen, support, tie, tighten, uphold |
| Antonyms: | loosen, unfasten, let go |
| Main Entry: | coach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | instruct, usually in recreation |
| Synonyms: | break in*, cram, drill, educate, hone, lay it out for, lick into shape, prepare, pull one's coat, put through the grind, put through the mill, ready, school, teach, train, tutor |
| Antonyms: | accept, learn, listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adapt, prepare |
| Synonyms: | accustom, brainwash, build up, educate, equip, habituate, inure, modify, practice, program, ready, sharpen, train, work out, loosen up, make ready, shape up, tone up, toughen up, warm up, whip into shape, work over |
| Main Entry: | deft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agile, clever |
| Synonyms: | able, adept, adroit, apt, crack, cute, dexterous, expert, fleet, handy, ingenious, neat, nimble, proficient, prompt, quick, ready, skilled, skillful, having good hands, having know-how |
| Antonyms: | awkward, clumsy, inept, unskillful, unhandy |
| Main Entry: | desirous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aspiring, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, ambitious, amorous, anxious, avid, covetous, craving, desiring, eager, enthusiastic, grasping, greedy, hot*, itchy*, keen, longing, lustful, passionate, ready, stimulated, willing, wishful, wishing, yearning, prehensile, turned on |
| Antonyms: | reluctant, unenthusiastic, unambitious, unhopeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclined to a type of behavior |
| Synonyms: | apt, biased, game*, given, liable, likely, minded, partial, predisposed, prone, ready, subject, willing, at drop of hat, fain, game for, of a mind to, tending toward |
| Antonyms: | indisposed, unlikely, unwilling, unready |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | efficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adept, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, active, adapted, adequate, apt, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conducive, decisive, deft, dynamic, economic, economical, effectual, efficacious, energetic, experienced, expert, fitted, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, equal to, familiar with, good at, good for, well-organized |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impotent, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, unable, weak |
| Main Entry: | enable |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | allow, authorize |
| Synonyms: | accredit, approve, commission, condition, empower, endow, facilitate, fit, implement, invest, let, license, permit, prepare, qualify, ready, sanction, set up, warrant, capacitate, give power, make possible, provide the means |
| Antonyms: | block, disallow, halt, hinder, inhibit, oppose, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | enterprising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resourceful, energetic |
| Synonyms: | active, adventurous, aggressive, alert, ambitious, aspiring, audacious, bold, busy, craving, daring, dashing, diligent, driving, eager, enthusiastic, go-ahead*, hardworking, hungry, hustling, industrious, intrepid, keen, lively, peppy, progressive, pushing, ready, snappy, spanking, spark plug, spirited, stirring, up-and-coming*, venturesome, vigorous, yearning, zealous, zippy*, advancing, coming on strong, go-go, gumptious, hard ball, itching, lusting, self-starting, take-over |
| Antonyms: | inactive, passive, unimaginative, unadventurous, unambitious, unenthused, unresourceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | equip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make ready with supplies |
| Synonyms: | adorn, appoint, arm, array, attire, deck, decorate, dress, endow, fix up, furnish, gear, heel*, implement, man, outfit, prepare, provide, qualify, ready, rig, set up, stake, stock, supply, turn out, accouter, deck out, feather nest, fit out, gear up, line nest, prep |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expeditious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immediate, speedy |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, breakneck, brisk, diligent, effective, effectual, efficient, fast, fleet, hasty, instant, nimble, prompt, punctual, quick, rapid, ready, swift |
| Antonyms: | retarded, slow, pokey |
| Main Entry: | facile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy; easily mastered |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie*, effortless, fast talk, flip*, fluent, glib, hasty, light, obvious, picnic*, practiced, proficient, pushover*, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick*, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complicated, confusing, difficult, hard, involved, laborious, profound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fluent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | articulate |
| Synonyms: | chatty, cogent, copious, declamatory, disputatious, easy, effortless, effusive, eloquent, facile, flowing, garrulous, glib, liquid, loquacious, mellifluous, natural, persuasive, prompt, quick, ready, running, silver-tongued*, smooth, talkative, verbose, vocal, voluble, wordy, cursive, mellifluent, smooth-spoken, well-versed |
| Antonyms: | hesitant, inarticulate, unprepared, effortful, unfluent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forthcoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expected, imminent |
| Synonyms: | accessible, anticipated, approaching, at hand, available, coming, destined, fated, future, impending, inescapable, inevitable, nearing, obtainable, on tap*, oncoming, open, pending, prospective, ready, upcoming, awaited, in evidence, in preparation, in prospect, in store, in the cards, in the wind, predestined, resulting |
| Antonyms: | bygone, distant, gone, past |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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