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  • adjective superlative form of ready: most ready.

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Examples

  • Here 'readiest' logically belongs to the predicate.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • Ability in the global tongue is arguably the readiest means for Inuit-speakers to enter the most effective possible conversation—necessarily one of global scope—affecting their local, high-latitude fates.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Ability in the global tongue is arguably the readiest means for Inuit-speakers to enter the most effective possible conversation—necessarily one of global scope—affecting their local, high-latitude fates.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • When the demand exceeds the artificially scarce supply, the decision is usually made to choose the most advanced children, the "smartest," the readiest.

    Alfie Kohn: 'Ready to Learn' Equals Easier to Educate Alfie Kohn 2010

  • When the demand exceeds the artificially scarce supply, the decision is usually made to choose the most advanced children, the "smartest," the readiest.

    Alfie Kohn: 'Ready to Learn' Equals Easier to Educate Alfie Kohn 2010

  • Of an evening when they gathered together his joke was always the readiest, his conversation the brightest, and his song the best.

    Chennai 2010

  • If you ask people why they give, the readiest answers offer clues to the mystery.

    Deepak Chopra: The Joy of Giving 2009

  • Foreign aid is, after narcotics, the readiest source of income in Afghanistan.

    Obama’s Vietnam 2009

  • Bearing branches of yew in their hands, as the readiest substitute for palm boughs, they marched respectively to the Dominican and Carthusian convents, to hear High Mass, and, by a show at least of devotion, to prepare themselves for the bloody strife of the day.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • There were even curraghs, composed of ox hides stretched over hoops of willow, in the manner of the ancient British, and some committed themselves to rafts formed for the occasion, from the readiest materials that occurred, and united in such a precarious manner as to render it probable that, before the accomplishment of the voyage, some of the clansmen of the deceased might be sent to attend their chieftain in the world of spirits.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

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