Ready and Unable

Ready

Ready adjective - Being in a state of fitness for some experience or action.

Unable is an antonym for ready.

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

Unable

Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Usage example: a celebrated author of serious plays, he turned out to be a particularly unable writer of comedies

Ready is an antonym for unable.

Both words in one sentence

  • Achievements in Ignorance Unable to counter the queen's order, his take-over not yet ready, and with no actual legal grounds to protest, the priest is sent to war.
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance He's completely unable to understand why Shirou might have issue with him trying to sleep with his classmates, is ready to kill people that Shirou thinks are his friends at any time and seems to feel that anything he can take from their actual owners is his.
  • If it's done by an Evil Overlord or... uh... a caring and benevolent ruler who is unable to paint smilies on their subjects' souls but at least wants to remove tears from there, you've got a ready dystopian setting.
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