Ready-made

Quick meaning: Ready-made is an adjective meaning (not comparable) Made in advance to a standard specification.

Meaning

(not comparable) Made in advance to a standard specification.

More Meanings

1. Made or prepared in advance and used regularly or habitually without original thought.
2. A ready-made object.
3. (art) Synonym of found object.
4. Preexisting or made previously and suitable for use without further preparation or modification; comparable with regard to the amount of preparation required.

Example Sentences

[…]including both the most everyday and popular, the most ready-made or found objects, the most quotidian of performances.

During the 1830s and 1840s, ready-made standardized shoes and clothing increasingly challenged the custom-made products of small handicraft workshops.

The potlatch was perhaps the most ready-made container for explaining the gospel and the kingdom of God, in all its counterintuitiveness, to native people.

The Tees Valley already produces more than 50% of all the hydrogen in the UK so it makes sense to bring it [hydrogen fuelling] here because you've already got a ready-made supply.

Word Forms

• readymade
• ready-mades

Synonyms for ready-made

Depending on context, synonyms include off-the-peg, reach-me-down, unoriginal, made, off-the-shelf, prefab.

Antonyms for ready-made

Common opposites include custom-made, made-to-order.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prefabricated, prefab, off-the-shelf, cliched, unoriginal, off-the-rack.

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