Ripe

Adjective

 * 1) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
 * 2) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
 * 3)  Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
 * 4)  Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
 * 5) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
 * 6) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
 * 7)  Intoxicated.
 * 8)  Of a conflict between parties, having developed to a stage where the conflict may be reviewed by a court of law.
 * 9) Smelly: having a disagreeable odor.

Noun

 * 1)  A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.

Verb

 * 1) To ripen or mature

Adverbs for Ripe
finally; quite; entirely; altogether; lusciously; deliciously; completely; satisfactorily; perfectly; unexpectedly; pleasantly; sufficiently; extremely; unduly; evidently

Thesaurus
accomplished, adult, age, aged, all ready, all set, appropriate, apt, archetypical, armed, armed and ready, auspicious, befitting, blase, booted and spurred, briefed, classic, coached, cocked, complete, consummate, convenient, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dependable, develop, developed, eager, enthusiastic, entire, equipped, exemplary, expedient, experienced, expert, familiarized, favorable, felicitous, finished, fit, fitting, fortunate, full, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale, fully developed, global, good and ready, groomed, grow, grow up, grown, grown-up, happy, ideal, in arms, in battle array, in full bloom, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, intact, knowing, loaded, loaded for bear, lucky, marriageable, masterful, masterly, maturate, maturated, mature, matured, meet, mellow, mellowed, mobilized, model, not born yesterday, nubile, of age, of marriageable age, old, on the mark, opportune, overdue, perfected, planned, polished, practiced, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, primed, proficient, proper, propitious, provided, providential, psyched up, qualified, quintessential, ready, ready for anything, refined, reliable, right, ripen, ripened, sagacious, sage, seasonable, seasoned, set, solid, sophisticated, sortable, suitable, tempered, timely, total, tried, tried and true, unabbreviated, uncut, undiminished, unexpurgated, up in arms, veteran, vigilant, virtuosic, well-prepared, well-timed, whole, wise, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

Antonyms

 * unripe

Derived terms

 * ripeness

Related terms

 * ripen

Adjective

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Anagrams

 * péri, pire, prie, prié

Noun
ripe



Anagrams

 * peri, perì