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Ready vs. Attentive — What's the Difference?

Ready vs. Attentive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ready and Attentive

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Ready

Prepared or available for service, action, or progress
I am ready to work. The soup will be ready in a minute. The pupils are ready to learn to read.

Attentive

Paying close attention to something
Ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers
Never before had she had such an attentive audience

Ready

Mentally disposed; willing
He was ready to believe her.

Attentive

Paying close attention; alert or observant
An attentive listener.
Attentive to detail.

Ready

Likely or about to do something
She is ready to retire.
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Attentive

Showing care for the needs or desires of others; caring or courteous.

Ready

Prompt in apprehending or reacting
A ready intelligence.
A ready response.

Attentive

Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely.
She is an attentive listener, but does not like to talk much.

Ready

Available
Ready money.

Attentive

Courteous; mindful.
A husband attentive to his wife's needs

Ready

To cause to be ready.

Attentive

Heedful; intent; observant; regarding with care or attention.

Ready

Prepared for immediate action or use.
The troops are ready for battle.
The porridge is ready to serve.

Attentive

Heedful of the comfort of others; courteous.

Ready

Inclined; apt to happen.

Attentive

(often followed by `to') giving care or attention;
Attentive to details
The nurse was attentive to her patient
An attentive suitor

Ready

Liable at any moment.
The seed is ready to sprout.

Attentive

Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention;
Heedful of the warnings
So heedful a writer
Heedful of what they were doing

Ready

Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind.
A ready apprehension
Ready wit
A ready writer or workman

Ready

Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient.

Ready

(transitive) To prepare; to make ready for action.

Ready

(slang) ready money; cash

Ready

Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey.

Ready

Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.
My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

Ready

Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.
If need be, I am ready to foregoAnd quit.

Ready

Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman.
Gurth, whose temper was ready, though surly.

Ready

Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy.
A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground,The readiest weapon that his fury found.

Ready

On the point; about; on the brink; near; - with a following infinitive.
My heart is ready to crack.

Ready

A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.

Ready

In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.
We ourselves will go ready armed.

Ready

Ready money; cash; - commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready.
Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.

Ready

To dispose in order.

Ready

Poised for action;
Their guns were at the ready

Ready

Prepare for eating by applying heat;
Cook me dinner, please
Can you make me an omelette?
Fix breakfast for the guests, please

Ready

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;
Get the children ready for school!
Prepare for war
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill

Ready

Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress;
Get ready
She is ready to resign
The bridge is ready to collapse
I am ready to work
Ready for action
Ready for use
The soup will be ready in a minute
Ready to learn to read

Ready

(of especially money) immediately available;
He seems to have ample ready money
A ready source of cash

Ready

Mentally disposed;
He was ready to believe her

Ready

Brought into readiness;
Dinner is ready

Ready

Apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity;
A quick mind
A ready wit

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