Word Meanings - PREPARED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREPARED)
- Alert
- Active
- brisk
- nimble
- prepared
- prompt
- vigilant
- ready
- wakeful
- watchful
- on the watch
- lively
- Fit
- Decent
- befitting
- meet
- apt
- fitting
- adapted
- seemly
- appropriate
- becoming
- decorous
- qualified
- congruous
- peculiar
- particular
- suitable
- adequate
- calculated
- contrived
- expedient
- proper
- ripe
- Grounded
- Rooted
- established
- initiated
- inaugurated
- indoctrinated
- trained
- Preconcerted
- Prearranged
- concocted
- premeditated
- Ready
- Prompt
- alert
- expeditions
- speedy
- unhesitating
- dexterous
- skilful
- handy
- expert
- facile
- easy
- opportune
- fitted
- disposed
- willing
- free
- cheerful
- compliant
- responsive
- quick
Related words: (words related to PREPARED)
- WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - EXPERT
Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert - LIVELY
1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier - PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - SKILFUL
See SKILFUL - PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - WATCHET
Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden. - DISPOSURE
1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. - QUALIFICATION
1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - WATCHDOG
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders. - INAUGURATE
Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - DISPOSITED
Disposed. Glanvill. - INDOCTRINATION
The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information. Sir T. Browne. - WILLING
1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - INDECOROUSNESS
The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - PROOTIC; PROOETIC
In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.