Ready is an adjective that denotes being prepared or organized. Antonyms are words that have an opposite meaning to a given word. The antonyms for ready include unprepared, disorganized, unfinished, incomplete, unclear, and nonchalant. Being unprepared means that one is not ready to do something that had been planned, whereas disorganized indicates the lack of order and effectiveness. Unfinished and incomplete suggest an unfulfilled task. Unclear means that something is not well-defined or specific, making it hard to comprehend. Lastly, nonchalant implies a lack of concern or interest in something. Knowing these antonyms will enable you to use various words to convey different meanings to a sentence.

What are the antonyms for Ready?

adj.
• afraid
- dis inclined
- dis-inclined
- in disposed
- in-disposed
- most uneager
- un eager
- un happier
- un happiest
- un happy
- un-eager
- un-happy
- uneager
• against, averse
- loath
• all
- unready
• averse
- anti pathetic
- anti-pathetic
- dis liking
- dis-liking
- having no use for
- ill disposed
- ill-disposed
- illdisposed
- more ill disposed
- more ill-disposed
- more illdisposed
- most disliking
- most ill disposed
- most illdisposed
- un favorable
- un friendlier
- un friendliest
- un-favorable
- un-friendlier
- un-friendliest
- un-friendly
• careless
- Pococurante
- Uncircumspect
- dis regardful
- dis-regardful
- in accurate
- in advertent
- in cautious
- in considerate
- in different
- in discreet
- in judicious
- in-accurate
- in-advertent
- in-cautious
- in-considerate
- in-different
- in-discreet
- in-judicious
- indolent
- more napping
- more pococurante
- more uncircumspect
- more unreflective
- most napping
- most pococurante
- most uncircumspect
- most unreflective
- offhand
- reckless
- un circumspect
- un concerned
- un guarded
- un heeding
- un mindful
- un observant
- un reflective
- un studied
- un thinking
- un-circumspect
- un-concerned
- un-guarded
- un-heeding
- un-mindful
- un-observant
- un-reflective
- un-studied
- un-thinking
- unguarded
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unreflective
• deceitful, tricky
- evasive
• dilatory
- Moratory
- Snail-like
- behindhand
- de laying
- de liberate
- de-laying
- de-liberate
- more dallying
- more laggard
- more loitering
- more moratory
- more snail like
- more snail-like
- more snaillike
- more tarrying
- more time wasting
- more time-wasting
- more timewasting
- most dallying
- most laggard
- most loitering
- most moratory
- most snail like
- most snail-like
- most snaillike
- most tarrying
- most time wasting
- most time-wasting
- most timewasting
- snail like
- time wasting
- time-wasting
- timewasting
- un hastier
- un hastiest
- un hasty
- un hurried
- un-hastier
- un-hastiest
- un-hasty
- un-hurried
- unhastier
- unhastiest
- unhasty
• dull, stuffy
- stodgy
• evasive
- Elusory
- casuistic
- casuistical
- in direct
- in tangible
- in-direct
- in-tangible
- mis leading
- mis-leading
- more casuistic
- more casuistical
- more dissembling
- more elusory
- more equivocating
- more prevaricating
- more shuffling
- more sophistical
- more stonewalling
- most casuistic
- most casuistical
- most dissembling
- most elusory
- most equivocating
- most prevaricating
- most shuffling
- most sophistical
- most stonewalling
- sophistical
- un clear
- un clearer
- un clearest
- un-clear
- un-clearer
- un-clearest
• hesitant
- half hearted
- in decisive
- in-decisive
- lacking confidence
- more dawdling
- more faltering
- most dawdling
- most faltering
- un predictable
- un sure
- un-predictable
- un-sure
• incapable
- dis qualified
- dis-qualified
- in adequate
- in capable
- in competent
- in effective
- in experienced
- in expert
- in-adequate
- in-capable
- in-competent
- in-effective
- in-experienced
- in-expert
- in-proficient
- in-sufficient
- inproficient
- more butterfingers
- more disqualified
- more uncool
- more unequipped
- most butterfingers
- most inproficient
- most uncool
- most unequipped
- not equal to
- not up to
- un abler
- un ablest
- un cool
- un equipped
- un skilled
- un skillful
- un suited
- un-abler
- un-ablest
- un-cool
- un-equipped
- un-skilled
- un-skillful
- un-suited
- uncool
- unequipped
• ineligible
- in appropriate
- in-appropriate
- un acceptable
- un available
- un desirable
- un suitable
- un-acceptable
- un-available
- un-desirable
- un-suitable
• late
- tardy
• makeshift
- band aid
- bandaid
- make do
- make-do
- makedo
- more band aid
- more band-aid
- more bandaid
- more make do
- more make-do
- more makedo
- more throwaway
- most band aid
- most band-aid
- most bandaid
- most make do
- most make-do
- most makedo
- most throwaway
- pro visional
- quick and dirty
- stopgap
- throwaway
• nauseated; finicky
- squeamish
• not appropriate or suited
- unfit
• not in the mood
- unwilling
• not prepared, ready; new
- unaccustomed
• not qualified
- ineligible
• noun
- Toilful
- abstruse
- arduous
- averse
- burdensome
- complex
- complicated
- demanding
- difficult
- dormant
- dull
- exacting
- exhausting
- formidable
- grueling
- half-baked
- hard
- heavy
- herculean
- idle
- inactive
- inert
- intricate
- involved
- knotty
- labored
- laborious
- lazy
- logy
- murderous
- napping
- onerous
- oppressive
- painful
- problematic
- quiescent
- quiet
- recondite
- rough
- severe
- slothful
- stiff
- strenuous
- stressful
- taxing
- toilsome
- tough
- troublesome
- unamenable
- unintelligent
- unresponsive
- untrained
• prepared; available
- bare
- disinclined
- immature
- incapable
- unavailable
- uneducated
- unfurnished
- unprepared
- unripe
- unskilled
- unsuitable
• procrastinating
- dilatory
• reluctant
- dis heartened
- dis-heartened
- in voluntary
- in-voluntary
- more demurring
- more disheartened
- more grudging
- more uneager
- most demurring
- most disheartened
- most grudging
• reluctant, regretful
- afraid
• skillful, intelligent
- blunt
- boring
- ignorant
- lethargic
- sluggish
• slow
- be lated
- be-lated
- draggier
- draggiest
- draggy
- duncer
- duncest
- impeded
- in-active
- long delayed
- long drawn out
- long-delayed
- longdelayed
- more detained
- more hindered
- more impeded
- more long delayed
- more long-delayed
- more longdelayed
- more plodding
- more postponing
- more procrastinating
- more slow moving
- more slow-moving
- more time consuming
- more time-consuming
- more timeconsuming
- more tortoiselike
- more unpunctual
- most born-again
- most detained
- most hindered
- most impeded
- most long delayed
- most long-delayed
- most longdelayed
- most plodding
- most procrastinating
- most slow moving
- most slow-moving
- most slowmoving
- most time consuming
- most time-consuming
- most timeconsuming
- most tortoiselike
- most unpunctual
- over due
- over-due
- pro-longed
- slow moving
- slow on the uptake
- slow on uptake
- slow the uptake
- slow uptake
- slow-moving
- slowest
- slowmoving
- snaillike
- time consuming
- time-consuming
- timeconsuming
- tortoiselike
- un eventful
- un productive
- un progressive
- un punctual
- un responsive
- un-eventful
- un-productive
- un-progressive
- un-punctual
- un-responsive
- unpunctual
• squeamish
- Qualmish
- dis gusted
- dis-gusted
- ex acting
- ex-acting
- hyper critical
- hyper-critical
- more qualmish
- most qualmish
- sick ones stomach
- sick stomach
- sick to one stomach
- sick to ones stomach
- sick to stomach
- strait laced
- un settled
- un-settled
• stodgy
- banausic
- more banausic
- most banausic
- un exciting
- un imaginative
- un inspired
- un interesting
- un-exciting
- un-imaginative
- un-inspired
• tardy
- in a bind
- in bind
- not arrived
- not done
- strapped for time
- too late
• temporary
- makeshift
• unaccustomed
- Newcome
- more newcome
- more novice
- more uncustomary
- most newcome
- most novice
- most uncustomary
- not given to
- not used to
- out of ordinary
- out ordinary
- sur prising
- sur-prising
- too green
- un accustomed
- un acquainted
- un common
- un commoner
- un commonest
- un conventional
- un customary
- un expected
- un familiar
- un informed
- un instructed
- un known
- un practiced
- un seasoned
- un taught
- un trained
- un usual
- un wonted
- un-accustomed
- un-acquainted
- un-common
- un-commoner
- un-conventional
- un-customary
- un-expected
- un-familiar
- un-informed
- un-instructed
- un-known
- un-seasoned
- un-taught
- un-trained
- un-usual
- un-wonted
- uncustomary
- unfamiliar with
- unused to
- unversed in
• uncertain, waiting
- hesitant
• unenthusiastic, unwilling
- reluctant
• unfit
- Butter-fingered
- Unhandy
- butter fingered
- butterfingered
- can't make grade
- can't make the grade
- cant make grade
- cant make the grade
- heavy handed
- heavyhanded
- ill adapted
- ill equipped
- ill suited
- ill-adapted
- ill-equipped
- illadapted
- illequipped
- illsuited
- in applicable
- in capacitated
- in compatible
- in congruous
- in correct
- in efficient
- in eligible
- in expedient
- in harmonious
- in-applicable
- in-capacitated
- in-compatible
- in-congruous
- in-efficient
- in-eligible
- in-expedient
- in-felicitous
- in-harmonious
- inefficient
- laid low
- mis taken
- more amateur
- more blundering
- more butter fingered
- more butter-fingered
- more butterfingered
- more ill equipped
- more ill-adapted
- more ill-equipped
- more illequipped
- more unfitted
- more unproficient
- more unpromising
- most amateur
- most blundering
- most butter fingered
- most butter-fingered
- most butterfingered
- most disqualified
- most ill adapted
- most ill equipped
- most ill-adapted
- most ill-equipped
- most illadapted
- most illequipped
- most unfitted
- most unproficient
- most unpromising
- no good
- not cut out for
- not fit
- not to
- out element
- out of place
- out of shape
- out place
- out shape
- un apter
- un aptest
- un becoming
- un congenial
- un fit
- un fitted
- un handier
- un handiest
- un handy
- un healthier
- un healthiest
- un healthy
- un likelier
- un likeliest
- un likely
- un meeter
- un meetest
- un prepared
- un proficient
- un promising
- un-apter
- un-becoming
- un-congenial
- un-fit
- un-fitted
- un-handier
- un-handy
- un-healthiest
- un-healthy
- un-likelier
- un-likely
- un-meet
- un-meeter
- un-meetest
- un-prepared
- un-proficient
- un-promising
- unfitted
- unhandier
- unhandiest
- unmeeter
- unproficient
- unpromising
• unhurried, lazy
- slow
• unqualified
- busher
- bushest
- bushleague
- ex press
- ex-press
- more never-failing
- more neverfailing
- more unalloyed
- most never failing
- most never-failing
- most neverfailing
- most unalloyed
- never failing
- never-failing
- neverfailing
- no catch
- no ifs ands buts
- no ifs ands or buts
- out and out
- un adulterated
- un conditional
- un faltering
- un mitigated
- un qualified
- un restricted
- un-adulterated
- un-alloyed
- un-conditional
- un-faltering
- un-limited
- un-mitigated
- un-qualified
- un-reserved
- un-restrained
- un-restricted
- unalloyed
- without reservation
• unwilling
- against grain
- against the grain
- be grudging
- be-grudging
- dis obliging
- dis-obliging
- in docile
- in-docile
- more against
- more begrudging
- more compelled
- more unaccommodating
- more uncheerful
- more uninclined
- more unobliging
- more unwishful
- most against
- most begrudging
- most compelled
- most unaccommodating
- most uncheerful
- most uninclined
- most unobliging
- most unready
- most unwishful
- un accommodating
- un cheerful
- un cooperative
- un enthusiastic
- un inclined
- un obliging
- un ready
- un willing
- un wishful
- un-accommodating
- un-cheerful
- un-cooperative
- un-enthusiastic
- un-inclined
- un-obliging
- un-ready
- un-willing
- un-wishful
- unaccommodating
- uncheerful
- uninclined
- unobliging
- unwishful
• willing, inclined
- apathetic
- disinterested
- sad
- stupid
- unenthusiastic
- unhappy
v.
• abandon, quit
- cop out
• cop out
- de sert
- de-sert
- gave slip
- gave the slip
- give slip
- give the slip
- gives slip
- gives the slip
- giving slip
- giving the slip
- had alibi
- haddest alibi
- hadst alibi
- has alibi
- hast alibi
- hath alibi
- have alibi
- having alibi
- use pretext
- used pretext
- uses pretext
- using pretext
- with draw
- with drawing
- with drawn
- with draws
- with drew
- with-draw
- with-drawing
- with-drawn
- with-drew
• disrupt
- Breaching
- Disarraying
- Fracturing
- Muddy Waters
- bollix
- bollixed
- bollixes
- bollixing
- brake in to
- brake into
- breached
- break in to
- break into
- breaking in to
- breaking into
- breaks in to
- breaks into
- broke in to
- broke into
- dis array
- dis arrayed
- dis arraying
- dis arrays
- dis compose
- dis composed
- dis composes
- dis composing
- dis order
- dis ordered
- dis ordering
- dis orders
- dis-array
- dis-arrayed
- dis-arraying
- dis-arrays
- dis-compose
- dis-composed
- dis-composes
- dis-composing
- dis-order
- dis-ordered
- dis-ordering
- dis-orders
- disarrayed
- fractured
- holed
- interfere with
- interfered with
- interferes with
- interfering with
- muck up
- mucked up
- mucking up
- mucks up
- muddied the waters
- muddied waters
- muddies the waters
- muddies waters
- muddy the waters
- muddying the waters
- muddying waters
- psych out
- psyched out
- psyching out
- psychs out
- rattle cage
- rattle one cage
- rattle one's cage
- rattle ones cage
- rattled cage
- rattled one cage
- rattled one's cage
- rattles cage
- rattles one cage
- rattles one's cage
- rattles ones cage
- rattling cage
- rattling one's cage
- rattling ones cage
- rummage
- un settle
- un settles
- un settling
- un-settle
- un-settling
- up set
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
- upset apple cart
- upset the apple cart
- upsets apple cart
- upsets the apple cart
- upsetting apple cart
- upsetting the apple cart
• noun
- extemporize
- improvise
• prepare
- destroy
- disallow
- disarrange
- discourage
- disorder
- disorganize
- displace
- dissuade
- disturb
- fail
- halt
- hold back
- hurt
- let go
- lose
- prevent
- retard
- weaken
• undo, untangle
- unwind
• unwind
- Unreeled
- dis entangle
- dis entangled
- dis entangles
- dis entangling
- dis-entangle
- dis-entangled
- dis-entangles
- dis-entangling
- ease off
- eased off
- eases off
- easing off
- loosened up
- loosens up
- quiet down
- quieted down
- quieting down
- quiets down
- re cline
- re clines
- re sting
- re-cline
- re-clines
- re-sting
- sat back
- sate back
- sit back
- sits back
- sitting back
- slow down
- slowed down
- slowing down
- slows down
- take a break
- take easy
- takes a break
- takes break
- takes easy
- takes it easy
- taking a break
- taking break
- taking easy
- taking it easy
- took a break
- took break
- took it easy
- un bend
- un bended
- un bending
- un bends
- un bent
- un coil
- un coiled
- un coiling
- un coils
- un furled
- un furling
- un ravel
- un raveled
- un raveling
- un ravelled
- un ravelling
- un ravels
- un reel
- un reeled
- un reeling
- un reels
- un roll
- un rolled
- un rolling
- un rolls
- un twine
- un twined
- un twist
- un twisting
- un twists
- un wind
- un winding
- un winds
- un wound
- un wrap
- un wrapped
- un wrapping
- un wraps
- un-bend
- un-bended
- un-bending
- un-bends
- un-bent
- un-coil
- un-coiled
- un-coiling
- un-coils
- un-furled
- un-furling
- un-ravel
- un-raveled
- un-raveling
- un-ravelled
- un-ravelling
- un-ravels
- un-reel
- un-reeled
- un-reeling
- un-roll
- un-rolled
- un-rolling
- un-rolls
- un-twine
- un-twined
- un-twines
- un-twining
- un-twist
- un-twisted
- un-twisting
- un-twists
- un-wind
- un-winding
- un-winds
- un-wound
- un-wrap
- un-wrapping
- un-wraps
- unbend
- unbended
- unbent
- uncoil
- uncoiled
- uncoiling
- uncoils
- unreel
- unreeling
- unreels
- untwine
- untwined
- untwines
- untwining
- untwisted
- untwisting
- untwists
- wind down
- winded down
- winding down
- winds down
- wound down
• upset, disorganize
- disrupt
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Usage examples for Ready

We are ever ready to think it was easy for those who saw Christ to follow Him.

"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"

Marcus Dods

She had been ready not only to give all-but to receive all.

"Jane Oglander"

Marie Belloc Lowndes

There, I think we are ready.

"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"

Pauline Lester

Famous quotes with Ready

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

Abdallah II
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Ralph Abernathy
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Ansel Adams

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