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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 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 ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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  

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

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

How to pronounce prepared?

How to say prepared in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use prepared in a sentence?

1. Jamil Abu Bakr:

   Sykes-Picot partitioned the Arab world and prepared the ground to absorb the Zionist entity and execute the plot to set it up and to keep Arabs weak.

2. Erik Pevernagie:

   How many people are ready to die for beauty, prepared to go through an infernal desert of starvation. Absence of beauty means ultimate loneliness. Absence of beauty means guilt and exile into a no-man’s land. Life is an outcast’s journey through a gloomy valley, when beauty has forsaken. ("Absence of beauty was like hell").

3. Dean Phillips:

   I think the country would be well served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats to step up.

4. Yar Chaikovsky:

   We had all prepared to make sure we were ready to try this case on our own. And the client— seeing that preparation gave them that confidence.

5. Mary Lou McDonald:

   It seems to me that they (the Irish government) were quite prepared to throw the peace process under the bus for the sake of a few percentage points in an opinion poll, that is a disgraceful approach.