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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. prepared

    Alert, ready, and wide-awake refer to a watchful promptness for action. Ready suggests thoughtful preparation; the wandering Indian is alert, the trained soldier is ready. Ready expresses more life and vigor than prepared. The gun is prepared; the man is ready. Prompt expresses readiness for appointment or demand at the required moment. The good general is ready for emergencies, alert to perceive opportunity or peril, prompt to seize occasion. The sense of brisk, nimble is the secondary and now less common signification of alert. Compare ACTIVE; ALIVE; NIMBLE; VIGILANT.

    Synonyms:
    active, alert, brisk, hustling, lively, nimble, on the watch, prompt, ready, vigilant, watchful, wide-awake

    Antonyms:
    drowsy, dull, heavy, inactive, slow, sluggish, stupid

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. preparedadjective

    made ready or fit or suitable beforehand

    "a prepared statement"; "be prepared for emergencies"

    Synonyms:
    disposed(p), fain, inclined(p)

    Antonyms:
    extemporaneous, unprepared, unequipped, unwilling, extemporary, impromptu, offhand, unrehearsed, offhanded, ad-lib, extempore, off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment

  2. disposed(p), fain, inclined(p), preparedadjective

    having made preparations

    "prepared to take risks"

    Antonyms:
    offhanded, extemporary, unequipped, unrehearsed, offhand, unprepared, spur-of-the-moment, extempore, ad-lib, extemporaneous, off-the-cuff, impromptu, unwilling

  3. preparedadjective

    equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources

    "graduates well equipped to handle such problems"; "equipped to be a scholar"

    Synonyms:
    disposed(p), fain, inclined(p)

    Antonyms:
    extempore, off-the-cuff, unrehearsed, unwilling, offhand, spur-of-the-moment, ad-lib, unequipped, unprepared, offhanded, extemporary, impromptu, extemporaneous

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. on it

    got or getting a thing done.

    the troops took care of the situation.

    Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  
  2. locked and loaded

    locked and loaded refers to locking back the bolt on an rifle and loading a bullet or a magazine. the rifle is then ready to fire. Now used simply to convey the completion of preparation for any adventure.

    gentlemen, the enemy is approaching the gate. are you ready? locked and loaded sir!

    Submitted by acronimous on January 29, 2019  

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How to use prepared in a sentence?

  1. Laura Beil:

    The level of poverty and death and devastation that he saw there was something that he was not prepared for, and he was having to see things he wasn't prepared for, was having to do things he wasn't prepared for, cleaning up bodies.

  2. Charles Williams:

    Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

  3. Simone Biles:

    The girls did their jobs. We went out there and had fun with it. It comes from all the practices we’ve done. We’re so prepared for this, we came into it mentally stronger. We were like, ‘OK, we’re actually really prepared for this, maybe even over-prepared, so let’s go and have some fun.’ I think that’s what we all did.

  4. Winston Churchill:

    I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  5. Brent Bozell:

    Be prepared to be ambushed, be prepared to be slandered. Be prepared to be verbally persecuted.


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