Ready-made

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ready-made \Read"y-made`\ (r[e^]d"[y^]-m[=a]d`), a.
     Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not
     made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  ready-made
       adj 1: made for purchase and immediate use [ant: {custom-made}]
       2: repeated regularly without thought or originality;
          "ready-made phrases" [syn: {cliched}]
       3: commercially produced; not homemade; "ready-made clothes"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "ready-made":
     adaptable, believable, convenient, conventional, credible,
     expedient, finished, hackneyed, handy, pedestrian, plausible,
     prefabricated, ready-to-wear, routine, run-of-the-mill,
     serviceable, stale, stereotyped, stock, suitable, trite,
     unoriginal, usable, useful