Ripe
19 definitions retrieved  Ripe \Ripe\ (r[imac]p), n. [L. ripa.] The bank of a river. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Ripe \Ripe\, v. i. [AS. r[imac]pian.] To ripen; to grow ripe. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Ripe \Ripe\, v. t. To mature; to ripen. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine. [1913 Webster] 3. Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate. "Ripe courage." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc. [1913 Webster] 5. Ready for action or effect; prepared. [1913 Webster] While things were just ripe for a war. --Addison. [1913 Webster] I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 6. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness. [1913 Webster] Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. Intoxicated. [Obs.] "Reeling ripe." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Mature; complete; finished. See Mature. [1913 Webster]  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]  RIPE Reseaux IP Europeens  RIPE Reseaux IP Europeenne (Europenet)  ripe [raip] reif  ripe [raip] fait; mûr  ripe érett  ripe [raip] aibidh  ripe maturo  ripe [raip] maturus  ripe [raip] belegen; bezonken; rijp  ripe [raip] maduro, sazonado  ripe [raip] maduro  ripe [raip] mogen  ripe reif  141 Moby Thesaurus words for "ripe": 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 Ripe related |
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