Synonyms for ripe
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
3. Mature
mature, mellow formal, full-grown, matured, consummate, aged, mellowed, prepared, developed, advanced
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Intoxicated.
- adj. 2
Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature.
- adj. 3
Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow.
Related words
- Word family
- ripen ripeness
- Phrases
- time is ripe
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Mature brings to view the progressiveness of the process; ripe indicates the result. We speak of a thing as mature when thinking of the successive stayes through which it has passed; as ripe, when our attention is directed merely to its state.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- opportune Elias is just waiting for the opportune moment to strike.
- mature I think our son is mature enough to understand it.
By length
- 3 letters
- fit1, apt1
- 4 letters
- good1, high1, full1, aged1
- 5 letters
- right1, ready2
- 6 letters
- mature2, loaded2, mellow2, primed1, cocked1
- 7 letters
- matured2
- 8 letters
- complete2, finished2, prepared2, advanced2, seasoned2, mellowed2
- 9 letters
- developed3, opportune3
- 10 letters
- consummate3
- 12 letters
- accomplished3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ready2 = 2 syllables).