3. prompt, punctual, speedy, hasty, quick, alac-ritous, swift, brisk; expeditious, timely.
4. dexterous, agile, deft, adroit, skillful, expert; nimble-witted, quick-witted, bright, knowing; astute, keen, penetrating, sharp, acute, piercing; attentive, alert, on the qui vive, wide-awake, expectant; perceptive, discerning, percipient, subtle; cunning, clever, shrewd, ingenious, artful; masterly, resourceful, versatile.
5. about to, on the verge of, on the brink of; tending, prone; expectant, waiting; subject, open, liable, endangered, exposed, in danger of.
6. immediately available, on hand, usable, on tap, present, available, on call; handy, accessible, at one's finger tips.
7. psyched or psyched up, excited, geared or geared for or geared up; animated, lively, energetic, alive; anxious, Inf. raring to go.
-v. 8. prepare, make ready, arrange, order,
organize.
9. psych up, gear up, get up for, get in the mood for, get ready.
ready-made, adj. 1. prefabricated, Inf. prefab, preformed, preconstructed; ready-to-wear, ready-prepared, ready-to-use, ready-cooked, ready-mixed; off-the-rack, Brit, off-the-peg; no muss no fuss, instant, carry out, take home, to go, self-serve, as is; (both of food) frozen, TV.
2. unoriginal, unimaginative, uninspired; conventional, standard, usual, everyday, stock, routine; commonplace, pedestrian, common, ordinary, run-of-the-mill; prosaic, matter-of-fact, dull, stale, tedious, jejune; trite, cliche, stereotyped, hackneyed, bromidic, platitudinous.
real, adj. I. true, actual, Brit. Dial, gradely, Both Archaic, sooth, soothfast; factual, unimaginary, un-fictitious, true-to-life, realistic; authentic, genuine, Dial, sure-enough, bona fide, veritable, valid, confirmed; rightful, legitimate, lawful, just, legal, licit, official.
2. sincere, heartfelt, earnest, fervent; unfeigned, unpretended, unaffected, natural; ingenuous, artless, guileless, unsophisticated, innocent, undeceitful; honest, truthful, veracious.
3. pure, simple, Inf. honest-to-goodness, unvarnished, unexaggerated, unembellished; unadulterated, uncorrupted, undistorted, unwarped.
4. existent, physical, corporeal, bodily, substantial, material; tangible, palpable, sensible, perceptible.
-adv. 5. Informal, very, truly, really; exceptionally, remarkably, exceedingly, extremely, enormously, realism, n. I. practicalness, practicality, practical
mindedness, sober-mindedness, pragmatism; rationality, reasonableness, sensibleness, saneness; worldliness, secularism, materialism; matter-of-factness, down-to-earthness.
2. candor, frankness, forthrightness, straightforwardness, calling a spade a spade, SI. telling it like it is, SI. running it down; plain-speaking, plain-spokenness, downrightness, outrightness, explicitness, unequivocalness.
3. authenticity, genuineness, realness, legitimacy; naturalism, verisimilitude, lifelikeness, literalness.
realistic, adj. I. practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, sober-minded, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental; commonsense, down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, with both feet on the ground; sensible, reasonable, rational; businesslike, no-nonsense, tough-minded, hardheaded, hard-boiled; clear-eyed, nobody's fool, not born yesterday, not wet behind the ears, having been around, ungullible, unfoolable.