ready-made

1. 1.

   made for purchase and immediate use

   Antonymscustom-made

   Similarmadeoff-the-rackprefabready-to-eat
2. 2.

   repeated regularly without thought or originality

   “ready-made phrases”

   Synonymscliched

   Similarunoriginal
3. 3.

   commercially produced; not homemade

   “ready-made clothes”

   Similarfactory-made

1. 1.

   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”

   Antonymscustom-made

   Broaderartifact

Questions about ready-made

What does ready-made mean?

ready-made means "made for purchase and immediate use". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ready-made?

ready-made has 4 syllables: re-a-dy--made. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for ready-made?

Close synonyms include cliched. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of ready-made?

The recorded antonyms are custom-made, custom-made.

Is ready-made a common word?

ready-made is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.