The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - ready-madeadj.

1) ready-to-wear, finished, prefabricated, Brit off the peg: Ready-made clothes fit me better than custom-made. 2) convenient, expedient, serviceable, usable, handy, useful, suitable, adaptable; plausible, credible, believable: The storm provided a ready-made excuse for cancelling the appointment. 3) stereotyped, stereotypic(al) , hackneyed, time-worn, trite, stale, conventional, unoriginal, stock, pedestrian, routine, run-of-the-mill: His speeches are always full of ready-made clich‚s.