Ready vs Flippant - What's the difference?
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Prepared for immediate action or use.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:If need be, I am ready to forego / And quit.
*(Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
*:Dinner was ready .
Inclined; apt to happen.
Liable at any moment.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:My heart is ready to crack.
Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert.
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*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:whose temper was ready , through surly
* (1800-1859)
*:ready in devising expedients
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*:Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust. Looking back, I recollect she had very beautiful brown eyes.
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, title= Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:the readiest way
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, / The readiest weapon that his fury found.
To make prepared for action.
(slang) ready money; cash
* Arbuthnot
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
Ready is a related term of flippant.
As adjectives the difference between ready and flippant
is that ready is prepared for immediate action or use while flippant is (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity.As a verb ready
is to make prepared for action.As a noun ready
is (slang) ready money; cash.ready
English
Adjective
(er)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
Synonyms
* good to goVerb
Derived terms
* at the ready * cable ready * camera-ready * make-ready * on the ready * oven-ready * * readiness * ready-made * ready money * ready or not * ready reckoner * ready room * * * ready to hand * ready-to-wear * * rough and readyNoun
- Lord Strut was not flush in ready , either to go to law, or to clear old debts.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.