Ripe
[raɪp]
Definition
(adj.) at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; 'a ripe mind' .
(adj.) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; 'ripe peaches'; 'full-bodied mature wines' .
(adj.) fully prepared or eager; 'the colonists were ripe for revolution' .
Inputed by Cherie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The bank of a river.
(superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
(superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
(superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
(superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
(superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
(superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
(superl.) Intoxicated.
(v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
(v. t.) To mature; to ripen.
Editor: Rhoda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Mature, perfected by growth.[2]. Fit, prepared, ready, in readiness.[3]. Consummate, finished, perfect, accomplished.
Checker: Polly
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perfect, developed, full, matured, seasoned, ready, prepared, mellow, mature,advanced, consummate
ANT:Raw, crude, Immature, imperfect, undeveloped, blighted, unseasoned, sour,unready, unfit, unprepared, unmellowed, green, withered
Checked by Jacques
Definition
v.t. to search to rummage.
adj. ready for harvest: arrived at perfection: fit for use: developed to the utmost: finished: ready: resembling ripe fruit: mature as ripe judgment.—v.i. to grow ripe to ripen.—v.t. (Shak.) to make ripe.—adv. Ripe′ly.—v.i. Rī′pen to grow ripe: to approach or reach perfection.—v.t. to make ripe: to bring to perfection.—n. Ripe′ness.
Checked by Basil
Examples
- Hence I was led to dry the stems and branches of ninety-four plants with ripe fruit, and to place them on sea-water. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I suppose,' with a jerk, 'you have sometimes plucked a pear before it was ripe, Master Copperfield? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have had Miss Wade before me all this time, as if it was my own self grown ripe--turning everything the wrong way, and twisting all good into evil. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The rural world was not ripe for him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The time was not yet quite ripe for the road, but the needs of trade were growing more and more pressing. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was because they were not ripe, perhaps. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There stood Tarzan, his arms filled with ripe and luscious fruit. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He died at the ripe age of 64, and she at 63. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was far riper in experience and practice of his art than any other telegrapher of his age, and had acquired, moreover, no little knowledge of the practical business of life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Neither have they teachers or advisers with whom they can take counsel in riper years. Plato. The Republic.
- Ericsson, an engineer of the ripest experience, skill, and attainments, who had then come to make his home in the United States. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- About this time--in the ripest glow of summer--Madame Beck's house became as merry a place as a school could well be. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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