say it: pree-PERD
prepared is an adjective meaning "made ready or fit or suitable beforehand". It carries 3 recorded senses.
made ready or fit or suitable beforehand
“a prepared statement”
“be prepared for emergencies”
equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources
“graduates well equipped to handle such problems”
“equipped to be a scholar”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prepared come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.