PREPARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prepared mean? 

• PREPARED (adjective)
  The adjective PREPARED has 3 senses:

1. made ready or fit or suitable beforehand

2. having made preparations

3. equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources

  Familiarity information: PREPARED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREPARED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made ready or fit or suitable beforehand

Context example:

be prepared for emergencies

Similar:

braced (positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger)

embattled (prepared for battle)

equipped; fitted out (prepared with proper equipment)

oven-ready (prepared before sale and ready to be cooked)

preconditioned (having already been put into a suitable condition)

precooked (cooked partially or completely beforehand)

processed (subjected to a special process or treatment)

ready (made suitable and available for immediate use)

spread (prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out)

up ((usually followed by 'on' or 'for') in readiness)

Also:

ready (completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress)

Antonym:

unprepared (without preparation; not prepared for)

Derivation:

preparedness (the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having made preparations

Synonyms:

disposed; fain; inclined; prepared

Context example:

prepared to take risks

Similar:

willing (disposed or inclined toward)

Derivation:

preparedness (the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources

Context example:

equipped to be a scholar

Similar:

equipped; equipt (provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate)

 Context examples 

I saw in a moment that it was always kept prepared for her reception, and that he never went out but he thought it possible he might bring her home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This vaccine is prepared from blood samples of patients following their first relapse.

(Autologous-Cell Leukemia Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine prepared from human melanoma cancer cells.

(Melanoma vaccine, NCI Dictionary)

He never rushed till he was prepared to receive a rush; never attacked till he had first defended that attack.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It is found naturally in many plants or can be prepared synthetically.

(Coumarin Compound, NCI Thesaurus)

We took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, and laid her in bed and forced a few drops of brandy down her throat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

By this means he announced that he was prepared to retaliate for any hurt he might receive.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A suspension composed of a suspension that has been prepared immediately prior to dispensing or oral administration.

(Oral Suspension Final Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

I, supposing he had done with me, prepared to return to the house; again, however, I heard him call "Jane!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The young woman arranged the cottage and prepared the food, and the youth departed after the first meal.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)