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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREPA'RED, pp. Fitted; adapted; made suitable; made ready; provided.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: made ready or fit or suitable beforehand; "a prepared statement"; "be prepared for emergencies" [ant: unprepared]
2: having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: disposed, fain, inclined, prepared]
3: equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources; "graduates well equipped to handle such problems"; "equipped to be a scholar"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1663 subjected to a special process or treatment • preparedly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prepared Pre*pared", a. Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. --Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you are prepared to do something, you are willing to do it if necessary. Are you prepared to take industrial action?... = willing ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf 2. If you are prepared for something that you think is going to happen, you are ready for it. Police are prepared for large numbers of demonstrators... ? unprepared ADJ: v-link ADJ for n 3. 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. ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

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