Synonyms for prepared
pre·pared

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

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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

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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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1. List of paraphrases for "prepared":

   ready, willing, developed, established, drafted, preparation, produced, loans, loan, prepare, elaborated, compiled, preparing, preparations, formulated, redo, disposed, equipped, poised, written, prepped, lending, determined, set, devised, authored, completed, designed

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1. Kevin Sweeney:

   Arguably you could get a lot more information from the accounting firm than you could from the tax returns, they'd keep the documentation they used to prepare that return, and the work papers with the analysis that they prepared that return from.

2. Melinda Tauler:

   This seems to be a recurring theme so were definitely going to be prepared for it.

3. Walter Cunningham:

   I’m one of those people that never really looked back. I only recall that when someone asked me after I became an astronaut, all I remember is just kind of keeping my nose to the grindstone and wanting to do the best I could as — I didn’t realize at the time, but that was because I always wanted to be better prepared for the next step. I’ve always been looking to the future. I don’t live in the past.

4. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab:

   We are at a delicate and dangerous stage and we need to make sure that the next steps are sure-footed, we are proceeding very cautiously and we are sticking to the medical advice, the scientific advice, with the social distancing measures, at this time, while doing all the homework to make sure that we're prepared in due course for the next phase.

5. Defense Secretary Mark Esper:

   But we're sitting on them in a sense that they're prepared to ship once they are needed. Once HHS exhausts its stock.