Word Meanings - PREPARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure

Additional info about word: PREPARE

1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment. Milton. That they may prepare a city for habitation. Ps. cvii. 36 Syn. -- To fit; adjust; adapt; qualify; equip; provide; form; make; make; ready.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREPARE)

• Anticipate
• Forestall
• prejudge
• expect
• foretaste
• apprehend
• prevent
• prearrange
• prepare
• meet
• obviate
• intercept
• forecast
• Begin
• Initiate
• commence
• start
• originate
• arise
• inaugurate
• Drew
• Concoct
• compound
• mix
• hatch
• season
• threaten
• impend
• increase
• collect
• form
• gather
• grow
• Compound
• brew
• Digest Sort
• arrange
• dispose
• order
• classify
• study
• ponder
• consider
• assimilate
• incorporate
• convert
• methodise
• tabulate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PREPARE)

• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to PREPARE)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• DIGESTER
  1. One who digests. 2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. 3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• DIGESTIBLE
  Capable of being digested.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• INDIGEST
  Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.