Thesaurus / ready-made
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One company also has irrigation works, and ready-made farms for settlers in the prairie provinces.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWWithout applying to another librettist, he began to search for a ready-made text.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYThere are a certain number of ready-made phrases which we store and use when we wish to congratulate one another.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYRESocial classifications ready-made are perhaps a great boon even for the people.
JUANAHONORE DE BALZACFlicks got a couple of the Ready-Made magnates fighting for admission, said Tootles, ignoring her criticism.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSONThe ready-made rolls, moreover, were put together in a most workmanlike manner.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTONSome people used to think that the earliest men had a language all ready-made for them, but this could not be.
STORIES THAT WORDS TELL USELIZABETH O'NEILLThe writer was unable to procure ready-made magnets, so one was formed and magnetized.
THE BOY MECHANIC, BOOK 2VARIOUSHe then went to a ready-made clothes' shop, the owner of which had a large rural connection.
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWDTHOMAS HARDYIt was a ready-made species of room, with no heart in it, in spite of the harmonious colour scheme and really artistic detail.
THE BUTTERFLY HOUSEMARY E. WILKINS FREEMANWORDS RELATED TO READY-MADE
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
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