Mature
[mə'tʃʊə] or [mə'tʃʊr]
Definition
(verb.) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; 'He matured fast'; 'The child grew fast'.
(verb.) become due for repayment; 'These bonds mature in 2005'.
(verb.) develop and work out fully in one's mind; 'I need to mature my thoughts'.
(adj.) fully considered and perfected; 'mature plans' .
(adj.) having reached full natural growth or development; 'a mature cell' .
(adj.) characteristic of maturity; 'mature for her age' .
Inputed by Alan--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
(superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
(superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
(v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
(v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
(v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.
Typed by Adele
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Perfected by time, complete, perfect, ripe.[2]. Prepared, ready, well-considered, well-digested.
v. a. [1]. Ripen.[2]. Perfect, bring to perfection, bring to maturity.
v. n. Become ripe.
Inputed by Claude
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RIPE]
Inputed by Barnard
Definition
adj. grown to its full size: perfected: ripe: (med.) come to suppuration: fully digested as a plan.—v.t. to ripen: to bring to perfection: to prepare for use.—v.i. to become ripe: to become payable as a bill.—adj. Matur′able capable of being matured.—adv. Mature′ly.—ns. Mature′ness state or quality of being ripe or ready for use; Matur′ity ripeness: a state of completeness or readiness for use.
Editor: Paula
Examples
- Such is the mature fruit. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He thought of Rachael, how young when they were first brought together in these circumstances, how mature now, how soon to grow old. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- That this cannot take place in modes, is evident from considering their mature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was the final and culminating grace of a mature experience of life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- My intention was then formed, but not mature for communication. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Inform me at the earliest practicable day of the time when you will embark, and such plans as may then be matured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And now, Adeimantus, is our State matured and perfected? Plato. The Republic.
- But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In the fall of 1892 I moved to Kokomo, and the following summer I had my plans sufficiently matured to begin the actual construction of a machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As it reaches its full size it _matures_, it begins to produce young, which are either born alive or hatched from eggs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the other hand, there are those who see him only as a wrecker of the slowly maturing possibilities of a free and tranquil Hellenized world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Seven tons consisted of a large, late maturing yellow dent corn (Leaming), which had been planted May 28, 1887. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Mindful of his own lack of facilities for acquiring an education, his greatest desire in maturer years was for the education of his children. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Glaucon has more of the liveliness and quick sympathy of youth; Adeimantus has the maturer judgment of a grown-up man of the world. Plato. The Republic.
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