PREPARED definition: properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready. See examples of prepared used in a sentence.

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Definition of prepared adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

PREPARED definition: 1. ready to deal with a situation: 2. made earlier: 3. to be willing, or happy to agree to do…. Learn more.

To be willing (to do something): I am not prepared to defend him when I know he was wrong. [Middle English preparen, from Old French preparer, from Latin praeparāre : prae-, pre- + parāre, prepare, equip; see perə- in Indo-European roots.]

You can describe something as prepared when it has been done or made beforehand, so that it is ready when it is needed. He ended his prepared statement by thanking the police.

properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane. (of food) processed by the manufacturer or seller, by cooking, cleaning, or the like, so as to be ready to serve or use with little or no further preparation.

Synonyms for PREPARED: ready, go, fit, set, armed, conditioned, ripe, primed; Antonyms of PREPARED: unprepared, unready, underprepared, unqualified, untrained, flat-footed, half-baked, half-cocked

You must be prepared to work hard. (Definition of prepared from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)