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ripe
[ rahyp ]
adjective
- having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- resembling such fruit, as in ruddiness and fullness:
ripe, red lips.
- advanced to the point of being in the best condition for use, as cheese or beer.
- fully grown or developed, as animals when ready to be killed and used for food.
- arrived at the highest or a high point of development or excellence; mature.
- of mature judgment or knowledge:
ripe scholars; a ripe mind.
- characterized by full development of body or mind:
of ripe years.
- (of time) advanced:
a ripe old age.
- (of ideas, plans, etc.) ready for action, execution, etc.
- (of people) fully prepared or ready to do or undergo something:
He was ripe for a change in jobs.
- fully or sufficiently advanced; ready enough; auspicious:
The time is ripe for a new foreign policy.
- ready for some operation or process:
a ripe abscess.
- Archaic. drunk:
reeling ripe.
ripe
/ raɪp /
adjective
- (of fruit, grain, etc) mature and ready to be eaten or used; fully developed
- mature enough to be eaten or used
ripe cheese
- fully developed in mind or body
- resembling ripe fruit, esp in redness or fullness
a ripe complexion
- postpositivefoll byfor ready or eager (to undertake or undergo an action)
- postpositivefoll byfor suitable; right or opportune
the time is not yet ripe
- mature in judgment or knowledge
- advanced but healthy (esp in the phrase a ripe old age )
- slang.
- complete; thorough
- excessive; exorbitant
- slang.slightly indecent; risqué
Derived Forms
- ˈripely, adverb
- ˈripeness, noun
Other Words From
- ripely adverb
- ripeness noun
- half-ripe adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ripe1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with ripe , also see time is ripe .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Caring for employees has never been harder, therefore, or more ripe for change.
Silbert, however, believes the opportunity is ripe for North American crypto firms to reclaim a significant share of the world’s mining power.
For each region, the team determined whether conditions were ripe for a flare-inducing double-arc instability, and then aimed to predict the most powerful flares the sun produces, called X-class flares.
The moment was ripe for a novel statewide organizing approach.
He had the insight to tell when infrared technology, formerly the province of the experts, was ripe for routine use in a big project.
The time is ripe—and right—for action to begin that would divest Russia of the World Cup and award it to another nation.
Police sources informed Reforma that both action are considered “high risk” and ripe for “anarchist infiltration.”
In 1968, at the ripe age of 14, I was at the Miami convention carrying my Rockefeller sign on the convention floor.
But one issue, intriguingly, seems ripe for genuine bipartisan cooperation: criminal justice reform.
The Judge is currently set for an October 10 release date, a ripe calendar spot for a potential Oscar run.
I prayed for her before the temple, and unto the very end I will seek after her, and she flourished as a grape soon ripe.
Perhaps another reason may be named in the wood being so ripe and dry as to permit free vibration.
They soon reached a small island where ripe fruits were abundant, and where they could provide fresh supplies for the ships.
Christianity spread rapidly because the Roman Empire was ripe for a new religion.
When the leaf is ripe, it gets yellow spots on it; and on bending the leaf it cracks.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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