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[syn: cliched, ready-made]
3. commercially produced; not homemade;
- Example: "ready-made clothes"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ready-made
adj 1: made for purchase and immediate use [ant: custom,
custom-made]
2: repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-
made phrases" [syn: cliched, ready-made]
3: commercially produced; not homemade; "ready-made clothes"
n 1: a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of
furniture) that is made in advance and available for
purchase; "their apartment was furnished with ready-mades"
[ant: custom-built, custom-made]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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