Synonyms for ready-made
ready-made

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1. ready-madeadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   custom-made, custom-built, tailored, custom, made-to-order, tailor-made, bespoken, homemade, original, bespoke

2. ready-madeadjective

   made for purchase and immediate use

   Synonyms:
   cliched

   Antonyms:
   custom-built, custom-made, tailor-made, bespoken, bespoke, tailored, custom, made-to-order, homemade, original

3. cliched, ready-madeadjective

   repeated regularly without thought or originality

   "ready-made phrases"

   Synonyms:
   cliched

   Antonyms:
   custom-built, custom-made, made-to-order, custom, tailored, bespoke, original, homemade, tailor-made, bespoken

4. ready-madeadjective

   commercially produced; not homemade

   "ready-made clothes"

   Synonyms:
   cliched

   Antonyms:
   custom-made, custom-built, homemade, made-to-order, tailored, bespoken, bespoke, custom, tailor-made, original

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1. List of paraphrases for "ready-made":

   ready-to-wear, readymade, prefabricated, off-the-shelf, ready, out-of-the-box, predefined, finished

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How to use ready-made in a sentence?

1. Tresa Harrington:

   It was such, such fun, here's what you had : You had a middle-aged single man who was lonesome. Look what landed in his lap : a ready-made family. A gorgeous woman that I figured I could hit on and two kids who needed to be straightened out.

2. Carlyle:

   Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

3. John Dewey:

   The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

4. Karl Kraus:

   Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

5. Kurt Ehrenberg:

   The plan is for us to build a campaign, to show Senator Warren that if she does decide to get into the race, there is a ready-made structure here in New Hampshire and Iowa, we're going to build an organization that is ready to go it she decides to run for president.