ripe adj

1 fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used; "ripe peaches"; "full-bodies mature wines" [syn: mature] [ant: green]

2 fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution" [syn: ripe(p)]

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]

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]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪp

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.
   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1,

     Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?

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.

Derived terms

• ripeness

Related terms

• ripen

Translations

• Albanian: pjekur
• Arabic:
• Basque: umo
• Catalan: madur
• Chinese: 熟的 (shóu de)
• Croatian: zreo
• Danish: moden
• Dutch: rijp
• Estonian: küps
• Finnish: kypsä
• French: mûr
• German: reif
• Hungarian: érett
• Italian: maturo
• Japanese: 熟した (じゅくした, jukushita)
• Korean: 익은 (igeun)
• Portuguese: maduro
• Romanian: copt, maturat
• Russian: зрелый (zrélyj)
• Sardinian: cottu
• Scottish Gaelic: abaich
• Slovak: zrelý
• Slovene: zrel
• Swedish: mogen
• Turkish: olgun

Noun

1. A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=7vcGTI4Q22YC

   When he realized that the ripes would not make it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.

Derived terms

Verb

1. To ripen or mature
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene VIII,

   ALONSO: Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time;

French

Verb

1. Form of First-person singular present subjunctive, riper
2. Form of Third-person singular present subjunctive, riper
3. Form of Second-person singular imperative, riper

Italian

Noun

ripe

1. Plural of ripa

Ripe may refer to:

• Ripening, especially of fruit
• RIPE, Réseaux IP Européens
• RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe
• Ripeness, a term in law
• Ripe, East Sussex, in England
• Ripe (AN), in Italy
• Ripe (film), a 1997 drama by Mo Ogrodnik
• Ripe (album), a 2007 album by Ben Lee

Persons with the name Ripe:

• Wilhelm Ripe (1818–1885), German painter

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