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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used;
- Example: "ripe peaches"
- Example: "full-bodied mature wines"
[syn: ripe, mature]

2. fully prepared or eager;
- Example: "the colonists were ripe for revolution"

3. most suitable or right for a particular purpose;
- Example: "a good time to plant tomatoes"
- Example: "the right time to act"
- Example: "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
[syn: good, right, ripe]

4. at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge;
- Example: "a ripe mind"

5. far along in time;
- Example: "a man of advanced age"
- Example: "advanced in years"
- Example: "a ripe old age"
- Example: "the ripe age of 90"
[syn: advanced, ripe]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ripe \Ripe\ (r[imac]p), n. [L. ripa.]
   The bank of a river. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ripe \Ripe\ (r[imac]p), a. [Compar. Riper (r[imac]p"[~e]r);
   superl. Ripest.] [AS. r[imac]pe; akin to OS. r[imac]pi, D.
   rijp, G. rief, OHG. r[imac]ft; cf. AS. r[imac]p harvest,
   r[imac]pan to reap. Cf. Reap.]
   1. Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained
      perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as,
      ripe grain.
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            So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop
            Into thy mother's lap.                --Milton.
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   2. Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe
      cheese; ripe wine.
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   3. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected;
      consummate. "Ripe courage." --Chaucer.
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            He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one. --Shak.
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   4. Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of
      sores, tumors, etc.
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   5. Ready for action or effect; prepared.
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            While things were just ripe for a war. --Addison.
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            I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public
            bodies.                               --Burke.
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   6. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
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            Those happy smilets,
            That played on her ripe lip.          --Shak.
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   7. Intoxicated. [Obs.] "Reeling ripe." --Shak.
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   Syn: Mature; complete; finished. See Mature.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ripe \Ripe\, v. i. [AS. r[imac]pian.]
   To ripen; to grow ripe. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ripe \Ripe\, v. t.
   To mature; to ripen. [Obs.] --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ripe
    adj 1: fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used;
           "ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines" [syn: ripe,
           mature] [ant: green, immature, unripe,
           unripened]
    2: fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for
       revolution"
    3: most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time
       to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is
       ripe for great sociological changes" [syn: good, right,
       ripe]
    4: at the highest point of development especially in judgment or
       knowledge; "a ripe mind"
    5: far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in
       years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90" [syn:
       advanced, ripe]


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