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say it: RED-ee
ready is an adjective, verb and noun meaning "completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress". It is pronounced /ˈɹɛdi/ — RED-ee. It carries 8 recorded senses.
completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
“get ready”
“she is ready to resign”
“the bridge is ready to collapse”
“I am ready to work”
“ready for action”
“ready for use”
“the soup will be ready in a minute”
“ready to learn to read”
(of especially money) immediately available
“he seems to have ample ready money”
“a ready source of cash”
apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity
“a quick mind”
“a ready wit”
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 ready 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.