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ready reckoner |
ready to hand |
ready-cooked |
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ready-made
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ready-made has 1 sense
- ready-made(n = noun.artifact) Array - a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase; "their apartment was furnished with ready-mades" is a kind of artefact, artifact
Antonym: custom-made
Adjective ready-made has 3 senses
- ready-made(a = adj.all) Array - made for purchase and immediate use; Array Antonym: custom-made
- ready-made(s = adj.all) cliched - repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
- ready-made(s = adj.all) Array - commercially produced; not homemade; "ready-made clothes"
CIDE DICTIONARY
ready-made, a.
Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
ready-made
adaptable, believable, convenient, conventional, credible, expedient, finished, hackneyed, handy, pedestrian, plausible, prefabricated, ready-to-wear, routine, run-of-the-mill, serviceable, stale, stereotyped, stock, suitable, trite, unoriginal, usable, useful
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