Crossword clues for ready-made
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Preexisting or made previously and suitable for use without (further) preparation or modification; ''comparable with regard to the amount of preparation required''. 2 (context uncomparable English) Made in advance to a standard specification. 3 Made or prepared in advance and used regularly or habitually without original thought. n. A ready-made object.
WordNet
adj. made for purchase and immediate use [ant: custom-made]
repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases" [syn: cliched]
commercially produced; not homemade; "ready-made clothes"
Usage examples of "ready-made".
The mistress of the house was fond of ready-made phrases, and she adopted this one, about Julien, very pleased at having invited an academician to dine with them.
Charlie, Angelina strolled to the small selection of ready-made dresses at the rear of the store and tried to find something that fit.
AID had planned this fiasco, from the first slowboats to the retrobreeding program that produced not just the Neanderthals, but a ready-made Cenozoic ecology as well.
With his ready-made mob of Farers, Gelmar, Chief Wandsman of Skeg, shut down the GU consulate and made Skeg a closed enclave which no foreigner might leave.
He told me that the man had no ready-made locks, but he was going to fit my door with a padlock, of which I should have the key.
Hazards had purchased new shawls ready-made from the modiste and added them to their gowns for the trip to Covent Garden.
Dark-haired and dark-skinned, he wore clothing that had been mended and remended in a way rarely seen since the advent of garment factories and cheap ready-made goods.
His proposal to Maggie was covert and couched in terms as if he were doing her a favour by presenting her with a ready-made family because she was so far gone in her spinsterhood that it was very unlikely that she would breed now.
Rather than try to compose a routine for constructing some physically visualizable depiction of the abstract patterns of intercellular transactions taking place in the Entoverse, VISAR would endow its pseudo-Ents with ready-made patterns of conceptual associations extracted from the hosts.
Some were beginning to penetrate this remote section of the Styrian Salzkammergut although the other lakes offered more in ready-made pleasure: boats for hire, swimming pools and picture-pretty inns, petunias in window boxes, waitresses in dirndls, folk music and dancing and general GemUtlichkeit.
The horses were by far the bulkiest cargo, and the only heavy things were their barrels of wine and the timber for two or three ready-made forts.
With his ready-made mob of Farers, Gelmar, Chief Wandsman of Skeg, shut down the GU consulate and made Skeg a closed enclave which no foreigner might leave.
Tom Feather was chasing after moonbeams trying to set up a catering company instead of entering a ready-made office.
But wherever two natures have a great deal in common, the conditions of a first-rate quarrel are furnished ready-made.
His clothes fitted him too tightly, he wore cheap neckties, and ready-made boots, of course, of patent leather.